{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1977-06-09","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-11-01","city":"JOHNSON","country_code":"US","county_code":"187","cruise_speed_mph":126,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41530","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-11-01","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103213","mode_s_code":"51064521","mode_s_hex":"A46951","model":"PA-32R-300","n_number":"N38338","name":"RAFTER W RANCHES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N38338 is a Piper PA-32R-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Rafter W Ranches LLC, an LLC in Johnson, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 1, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 9, 1977.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rafter W Ranches LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 1, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated June 9, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32R-7780416 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N38338 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3L-65 (serial 6945, cancelled August 13, 1941). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N38338. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":7,"serial_number":"32R-7780416","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 724","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00620324","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N38338","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1977,"zip":"678550724"}