Piper PA-38-112
N381AV is a Piper PA-38-112, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oakdale, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 8, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-38-112 · all PA-38-112s and related versions
- Serial number
- 38-78A0638
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- A45F15 (octal 51057425)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 8, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00132212
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Allen R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6605 3Rd St N
Oakdale, MN 55128-7003
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N381AV, 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 Nelson Allen R, an individual, certificate issued May 1, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38-78A0638 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N381AV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 3879A0495, cancelled July 28, 1994). 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 N381AV: Accident on August 16, 1995 at Champaign, IL: 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
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA280 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
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