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Piper PA-38-112
N2528B 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 co-owned owners in Granbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 3, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-38-112 · all PA-38-112s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 38-79A0110
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- A2625E (octal 50461136)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 3, 1978
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00912972
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mankowski Luke Ray
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 633 Williamsburg Ct
Granbury, TX 76048-1708 - Co-owners
- Mankowski Aleksander Light
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
Connections how N2528B links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 442 registered
- Piper 44,848 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-235 series 6,131 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Granbury, TX 360 aircraft registered in this town
- Granbury Regional · GDJ
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 86 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 183 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-235 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-235 series 20 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N2528B, 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 Mankowski Luke Ray, a co-owned, certificate issued April 25, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 3, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38-79A0110 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2528B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18 (serial 18-911, cancelled May 25, 1965). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2528B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data