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Lockheed ELECTRA 10-A
N38BB is a Lockheed ELECTRA 10-A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1935. It has 12 seats. It is registered to an individual in Forest Lake, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lockheed
- Model
- ELECTRA 10-A
- Serial number
- 1026
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1935
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- A4590C (octal 51054414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 6, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 6, 2025
- 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
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00200224
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harker James P
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 10223 190Th St N
Forest Lake, MN 55025-3600
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.
Connections how N38BB links to the rest of the register
- Lockheed 197 aircraft on the register
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Forest Lake, MN 54 aircraft registered in this town
- Forest Lake Airport · 25D
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N38BB.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N38BB, 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 Harker James P, an individual, certificate issued May 6, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1026 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38BB 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N38BB. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data