Piper J5A
N38646 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 an individual in Lake Saint Louis, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 4, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J5A · all J5As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5-1031
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 77 mph
- Transponder code
- A47497 (octal 51072227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 4, 1958
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00200424
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Murphree David A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 115 Hannahs Mill Dr
Lake Saint Louis, MO 63367-2061
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 N38646, 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 Murphree David A, an individual, certificate issued February 17, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 4, 1958, 17 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 5-1031 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38646 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 N38646: Accident on May 17, 2001 at Brussels, 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 J5A · operated under 091
the partial loss of engine power for undetermined reasons and the high vegitation encountered during the precautionary landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01LA125 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