Piper PA-15
N4380H is a Piper PA-15, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in South Haven, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 27, 1955. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-15 · all PA-15s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-15 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
- 15-165
- 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 0-145B SERIES · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A54336 (octal 51241466)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 23, 2024
- 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 · November 27, 1955
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00962264
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brodin Terry e
- 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
- 7426 Washington St
South Haven, MI 49090-9025
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 1
Connections how N4380H links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-15 165 registered
- Piper 44,837 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-145B series 538 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- South Haven, MI 19 aircraft registered in this town
- South Haven Area Regional · LWA
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-15 11 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-15 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-15 112 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-145B series 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-145B series 3 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N4380H, 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 Brodin Terry e, an individual, certificate issued October 23, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 27, 1955, 7 years after the 1948 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15-165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4380H according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 30, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N4380H: Accident on August 15, 2009 at Plainwell, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-15 · operated under 091
A loss of control on takeoff for undetermined reasons.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data