{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-02-26","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2006-06-07","city":"REXBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"065","cruise_speed_mph":183,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41505","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-235 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103812","mode_s_code":"50437237","mode_s_hex":"A23E9F","model":"PA-38-112","n_number":"N2438L","name":"HART LEWIS W","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DUBOIS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1998-03-11","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA98LA043","probable_cause":"The student pilot's misjudgment of altitude/clearance and overloading of the nose gear. A contributing factor was the snow-covered turf runway.","registration":"N2438L","state":"ID","summary":"Accident on March 11, 1998 at Dubois, ID: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"BURLEY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1993-03-12","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA93LA077","probable_cause":"LANDING ON THE WRONG RUNWAY AND AN IMPROPER TOUCHDOWN. LACK OF TOTAL EXPERIENCE IN TYPE OF OPERATION WAS A FACTOR.","registration":"N2438L","state":"ID","summary":"Accident on March 12, 1993 at Burley, ID: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2438L is a Piper PA-38-112, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rexburg, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 26, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hart Lewis W, an individual, certificate issued June 7, 2006, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 26, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38-79A0703 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N2438L according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"2 NTSB records under N2438L: Accident on March 11, 1998 at Dubois, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 12, 1993 at Burley, ID: no 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"38-79A0703","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ID","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 633","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"00292632","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2438L","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"834400633"}