Piper PA-38-112
N2498D is a Piper PA-38-112, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Foresthill, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 18, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-38-112 · all PA-38-112s and related versions
- Serial number
- 38-79A0334
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- A254E2 (octal 50452342)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 18, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00542792
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Genzlinger Chad A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1454
Foresthill, CA 95631-1454
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2498D, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Genzlinger Chad A, an individual, certificate issued January 7, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 18, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38-79A0334 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2498D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170B (serial 20650, cancelled August 15, 1968). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N2498D: Accident on April 1, 1988 at Apple Valley, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX88LA147 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data