Piper PA-11
N4988M is a Piper PA-11, 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 Verona, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 11, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-11 · all PA-11s and related versions
- Serial number
- 11-476
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A6314C (octal 51430514)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 1, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 11, 1968
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00740795
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Satreaas Kenneth A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6491 110Th Ave SE
Verona, ND 58490-9344
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.
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The public federal record on N4988M, 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 Satreaas Kenneth A, an individual, certificate issued October 1, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 11, 1968, 20 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 11-476 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4988M 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]
1 NTSB record under N4988M: Accident on September 16, 2013 at Bozeman, MT: 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: Piper PA 11 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control and inadequate compensation for the high gusty wind conditions during taxi.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13CA412 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data