Piper PA-28-181
N38696 is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lake Area Technical College, a government body in Watertown, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 11, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7790577
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A47546 (octal 51072506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 11, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00640454
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lake Area Technical College
- Type
- Government
- Address
- PO Box 730
Watertown, SD 57201-0730
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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 N38696, 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 Lake Area Technical College, a government body, certificate issued July 2, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 11, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7790577 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38696 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 N38696: Accident on February 25, 2024 at Watertown, SD: 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-28-181 · operated under 091
The stuck No. 2 cylinder exhaust valve, which resulted in a partial loss of engine power and a forced landing due to an undersized exhaust valve guide. Contributing to the accident were the improper manufacture of the engine cylinders, and the operation of the engine in an overly rich fuel condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA121 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