Piper PA-28-161
N38968 is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Vagabond Flying Association, a corporation in Winfield, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 1998 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 27, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7716300
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A48004 (octal 51100004)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 10, 1998
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 27, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00720534
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vagabond Flying Association
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 26W770 Lindsey Ave
Winfield, IL 60190-2111
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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 N38968, 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 Vagabond Flying Association, a corporation, certificate issued August 10, 1998, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 27, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7716300 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38968 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 N38968: Accident on April 24, 1999 at Morris, 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 PA-28-161 · operated under 091
the directional control not maintained by the pilot. Contributing factors were the wind gusts, crosswind and runway light.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA133 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