Piper PA-28-161
N8388Y is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 9, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8116226
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AB7999 (octal 52674631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 24, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 9, 1981
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00703201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- International Air Services INC Trustee
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 123 W Nye Ln Ste 129
Carson City, NV 89706-0838
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8388Y, 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 International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued March 24, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 9, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8116226 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8388Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-30 (serial 30-1543, cancelled July 12, 1967). 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]
1 NTSB record under N8388Y: Accident on December 15, 1994 at Auburn, WA: no 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-28-161 · operated under 091
THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S NOT MAINTAINING CLEARANCE FROM THE POWER LINES. A FACTOR WAS THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S NOT MAINTAINING THE PROPER VASI GLIDESLOPE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA95LA024 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
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