Piper PA-28-181
N38990 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 Augusta Aviation INC, a corporation in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 11, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7890002
- 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
- A48065 (octal 51100145)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 11, 1977
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00160544
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Augusta Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 40 Folly Field Rd Apt C101
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928-6847
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N38990, 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 Augusta Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 13, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 11, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7890002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38990 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 6517, cancelled March 14, 1950). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N38990. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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