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N8479K

Piper PA-38-112

N8479K 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 Zeeland, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 25, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 14, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-38-112 · all PA-38-112s and related versions
Serial number
38-78A0504
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
183 mph
Transponder code
AB9D77 (octal 52716567)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 25, 2019
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 14, 1980
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00092901

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Meidinger Vernon J
Type
Individual
Address
8965 28Th Ave SE
Zeeland, ND 58581-9742

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 1

1955-10-17Stinson 108-1 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8479K, 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 Meidinger Vernon J, an individual, certificate issued November 25, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. 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 38-78A0504 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8479K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-1 (serial 108-1479, cancelled October 17, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8479K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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