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.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 11:58 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 28-7890002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A48065 (octal 51100145)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 11, 1977
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00160544
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Augusta Aviation INC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N38990 links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,620 registered
- Piper 44,838 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,931 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Augusta Aviation INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to February 22, 2027
- Hilton Head Island, SC 60 aircraft registered in this town
- Hilton Head Airport · HXD
- South Carolina 3,112 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,269 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- Where N38990 is now · Last seen yesterday at 11:58 am.
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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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data