Piper PA-38-112
N257KA is a Piper PA-38-112, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wikle Thomas A, a partnership in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 15, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-38-112 · all PA-38-112s and related versions
- Serial number
- 38-79A1004
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- A27261 (octal 50471141)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 15, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00743082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wikle Thomas A
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 3401 Bristol Road Ave
Stillwater, OK 74074-2191 - Co-owners
- Masri Aziz A
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.
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The public federal record on N257KA, 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 Wikle Thomas A, a partnership, certificate issued September 22, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 15, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38-79A1004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257KA according to the deregistered file. [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 N257KA. 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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data