Piper PA-28-161
N4388C is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Albert Lea Airport INC, a corporation in Albert Lea, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 4, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8516021
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1984
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A54449 (octal 51242111)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 4, 1984
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00813314
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Albert Lea Airport INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 400 Airport Rd
Albert Lea, MN 56007-2081
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 N4388C, 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 Albert Lea Airport INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 31, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 4, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8516021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4388C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Champion 7EC (serial 417, cancelled August 20, 1957). 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 N4388C. 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