Piper PA-38-112
N78WS is a Piper PA-38-112, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Burnsville, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 1989 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 8, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-38-112 · all PA-38-112s and related versions
- Serial number
- 38-78A0179
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- AA9032 (octal 52510062)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 7, 1989
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 8, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00844820
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hjelmstad David J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 10925 27Th Ave So
Burnsville, MN 55337 - Co-owners
- Hjelmstad Linda A
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N78WS, 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 Hjelmstad David J, a co-owned, certificate issued December 7, 1989, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 8, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38-78A0179 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78WS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78WS. 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