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Piper J5A
N38030 is a Piper J5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation in Port Townsend, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2007 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J5A · all J5As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper J5 Cub Cruiser 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
- 5-838
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 77 mph
- Transponder code
- A45E24 (octal 51057044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2007
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- 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
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00230214
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Port Townsend Aero Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 105 Airport Rd
Port Townsend, WA 98368-9716
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N38030 links to the rest of the register
- Piper J5 Cub Cruiser 294 registered
- Piper 44,847 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A75 / C75 series 1,504 aircraft with this engine series · 75 hp
- Port Townsend Aero Museum 55 aircraft in the fleet
- Port Townsend, WA 120 aircraft registered in this town
- Jefferson County International · 0S9
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper J5 Cub Cruiser 12 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper J5 Cub Cruiser 4 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper J5 Cub Cruiser 94 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N38030.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N38030, 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 Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation, certificate issued July 30, 2007, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5-838 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38030 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 N38030. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data