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N6401A

Piper PA-38-112

Valid Tennessee

N6401A is a Piper PA-38-112, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lewisburg, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 12, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-38-112 · all PA-38-112s and related versions
Serial number
38-78A0416
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
183 mph
Transponder code
A867B7 (octal 52063667)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 10, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · July 12, 1978
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00532176

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lynch Rick W
Type
Individual
Address
2089 Paradise Dr
Lewisburg, TN 37091-4533

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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 · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6401A, 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 Lynch Rick W, an individual, certificate issued March 10, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38-78A0416 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6401A 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 N6401A: Accident on August 21, 2006 at Chesapeake, VA: 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

NYC06CA212Accident on August 21, 2006 at Chesapeake, VA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 38-112 · operated under 091

The presence of deer on the runway during the landing roll, which resulted in a collision. A factor in the accident was the dark night.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC06CA212 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