Piper PA-11
N38687 is a Piper PA-11, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Park City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 21, 1975.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-11 · all PA-11s 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 PA-11 Cub Special 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
- 7195
- 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 C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A47524 (octal 51072444)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 31, 2024
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 21, 1975
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00310454
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Geiger William G
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7786 Buckboard Dr
Park City, UT 84098-5315
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N38687 links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-11 Cub Special 443 registered
- Piper 44,848 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 C85 series 4,671 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Park City, UT 120 aircraft registered in this town
- Utah 8,355 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-11 Cub Special 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-11 Cub Special 8 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-11 Cub Special 179 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C85 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C85 series 12 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N38687, 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 Geiger William G, an individual, certificate issued January 31, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 21, 1975, 27 years after the 1948 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 7195 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38687 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 N38687: Accident on May 2, 1987 at Meade, KS: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-11 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data