Piper PA-28-161
N38988 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 Bms Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Tinley Park, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 14, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 3, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7716309
- 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
- A4804A (octal 51100112)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2008
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 3, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00690544
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bms Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 19601 Ridgemont Dr
Tinley Park, IL 60487-7090
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 N38988, 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 Bms Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 14, 2008, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 3, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7716309 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38988 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR (serial 1424, cancelled August 6, 1945). 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]
1 NTSB record under N38988: Accident on February 8, 2004 at Lansing, 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 improper flare by the pilot due to his diverted attention during landing. Factors were the pilot's failure to execute a go-around, the overload of the right main landing gear, and the snowbank.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI04LA063 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