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N6038D

Piper PA-22-150

N6038D is a Piper PA-22-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Discovery Bay Aviation LLC, an LLC in Port Townsend, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 11, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-22-150 · all PA-22-150s and related versions
Serial number
22-4691
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1956
Cruising speed
94 mph
Transponder code
A7D5D8 (octal 51752730)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 5, 2010
Expires
January 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · December 11, 1956
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00320956

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Discovery Bay Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
131 Cape George Dr
Port Townsend, WA 98368-9468

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N6038D, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Discovery Bay Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 5, 2010, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated December 11, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22-4691 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6038D according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N6038D: Accident on August 21, 2009 at Tacoma, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

WPR09LA408Accident on August 21, 2009 at Tacoma, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-22-150 · operated under 091

The pilot's improper landing flare in crosswind conditions resulting in a gear leg collapse.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09LA408 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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