Piper PA-28-161
N9038K is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Northwest Aviation LLC, an LLC in Gig Harbor, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 26, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7816185
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AC7DCB (octal 53076713)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 26, 1977
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00101321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northwest Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1026 26Th Ave NW Ste D
Gig Harbor, WA 98335-8831
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
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The public federal record on N9038K, 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 Northwest Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 11, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 26, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7816185 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9038K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-1 (serial 108-2038, cancelled May 1, 1958). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9038K. 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