Piper PA-28-161
N838MA is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cca Aero Estate LLC, an LLC in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 15, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7916019
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AB7726 (octal 52673446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 28, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 15, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00641242
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cca Aero Estate LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 725 SW Higgins Ave Ste C
Missoula, MT 59803-1420
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.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N838MA, 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 Cca Aero Estate LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 28, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7916019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N838MA was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Learjet Inc 60 (serial 158, cancelled March 11, 2014); Piper PA 46-350P (serial 4636458, cancelled May 26, 2009); Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER (serial 188, cancelled March 21, 2000). 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 N838MA: Accident on April 5, 1999 at Lantana, FL: 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: De Havilland DHC-6-200 · operated under 135
The pilot's failure to secure the engine oil filler cap during the preflight inspection that resulted the subsequent loss of engine power, and his in-flight decision to attempt a single engine go-around with full wing flaps extended.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL99LA067 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