{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1984-03-09","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1997-12-02","city":"TALLAHASSEE","country_code":"US","county_code":"073","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-28","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102807","mode_s_code":"50114551","mode_s_hex":"A09969","model":"PA-28-181","n_number":"N138FC","name":"USDA FOREST SERVICE FEPP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"LABELLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1990-08-31","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"MIA90TL#06","probable_cause":null,"registration":"N138FC","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on August 31, 1990 at Labelle, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N138FC is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body in Tallahassee, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 1997 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 9, 1984.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body, certificate issued December 2, 1997, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 9, 1984, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8290102 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N138FC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 288290173, cancelled November 20, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N138FC: Accident on August 31, 1990 at Labelle, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":4,"serial_number":"28-8290102","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"STATE OF FLORIDA","street2":"3266 CAPITAL CIR SW","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00740132","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N138FC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1982,"zip":"323108723"}