Piper PA-32R-300
N38448 is a Piper PA-32R-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Orphans Hands INC, a corporation in Clinton, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 17, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32R-300 · all PA-32R-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32R-7780428
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A46D2B (octal 51066453)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 17, 1977
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00140354
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orphans Hands INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 35
Clinton, TN 37717-0035
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N38448, 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 Orphans Hands INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 20, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 17, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32R-7780428 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38448 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 7021, cancelled May 22, 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]
1 NTSB record under N38448: Accident on July 15, 2010 at St. Petersburg, FL: 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-32R-300 · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of directional control while taking off with a crosswind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA10CA368 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