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Piper PA-38-112
N9216T 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 an individual in Inver Grove Hts, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 6, 1978.
Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 7:47 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-38-112 · all PA-38-112s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 38-78A0279
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- ACC51D (octal 53142435)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 6, 1978
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00940791
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ludwigson Joel
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6658 Bixby Way
Inver Grove Hts, MN 55076
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
Connections how N9216T links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 442 registered
- Piper 44,847 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-235 series 6,133 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Inver Grove Hts, MN 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 86 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 183 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-235 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-235 series 20 reports since 1995
- Where N9216T is now · Last seen October 14 at 7:47 pm.
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The public federal record on N9216T, 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 Ludwigson Joel, an individual, certificate issued May 22, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 6, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38-78A0279 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9216T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180C (serial 50716, cancelled May 3, 1960). 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 N9216T. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data