Piper PA-28R-201
N38718 is a Piper PA-28R-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Vgw LLC, an LLC in Morgantown, West Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28R-201 · all PA-28R-201s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28R-7737111
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A477E7 (octal 51073747)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 26, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00314001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vgw LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 32 Sweetbriar Ln
Morgantown, WV 26508-2537
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 N38718, 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 Vgw LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 26, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28R-7737111 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38718 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 N38718: Accident on May 17, 1997 at Henderson, NV: 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-28R-201 · operated under 091
the pilot's attempt to land the aircraft under crosswind conditions that exceeded the performance capability of the aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX97LA188 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