Lockheed-Confederate Airforce P-38
N38LL is a Lockheed-Confederate Airforce P-38, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Echo Matrix LLC, an LLC in Bentonville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lockheed-Confederate Airforce
- Model
- P-38
- Serial number
- AAF 42-104088
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 285 mph
- Transponder code
- A459F6 (octal 51054766)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 3, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00920274
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Echo Matrix LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 1860
Bentonville, AR 72712-1860
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N38LL, 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 Echo Matrix LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 3, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AAF 42-104088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38LL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed P-38L (serial 350281, cancelled January 8, 1975). 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 N38LL: Accident on May 28, 1994 at Breckenridge, TX: minor 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: Lockheed P-38 · operated under 091
THE FUEL STARVATION INDUCED LOSS OF POWER DUE TO IMPROPER POSITIONING OF THE FUEL SELECTOR. FACTORS WERE THE PILOT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN THE TYPE AIRPLANE, AND THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR THE FORCED LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW94LA184 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