Piper J5A
N38402 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 Horst Aviation LLC, an LLC in New Holland, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 2, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 20, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J5A · all J5As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5-952
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 77 mph
- Transponder code
- A46C99 (octal 51066231)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 2, 2011
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 20, 1955
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00380344
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Horst Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 110 Short St
New Holland, PA 17557-1515
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 N38402, 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 Horst Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 2, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 20, 1955, 14 years after the 1941 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5-952 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38402 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]
1 NTSB record under N38402: Accident on July 29, 1984 at Gilead, ME: serious 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 J58 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84LA258 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