Piper PA-32R-300
N38908 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 an individual in Marion, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 28, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32R-300 · all PA-32R-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32R-7780487
- 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
- A47F32 (octal 51077462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 28, 1977
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00033752
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mollere Michael E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 336 Bonanza
Marion, TX 78124-6037
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 N38908, 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 Mollere Michael E, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 28, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32R-7780487 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38908 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Monocoupe 90AF (serial A-831, cancelled September 17, 1948). 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]
2 NTSB records under N38908: Accident on May 28, 1999 at Valley Springs, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 20, 1990 at Sacramento, CA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32R-300 · operated under 091
The fatigue failure and separation of the No. 6 connecting rod end cap, which led to a catastrophic failure of the engine. The fatigue crack initiation was due to galling on the rod end cap, which was most likely caused by an undetermined factory manufacturing process error during the engine rebuild.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX99LA201 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-R-300 · operated under 091
AN INADVERTENT COLLISION WITH A LARGE BIRD DURING THE HOURS OF DARKNESS WHILE IN THE LANDING PATTERN.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90LA108 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