Piper J3C-65
N1205P is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 3, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17630
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A056C7 (octal 50053307)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 7, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 3, 1997
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00826191
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Newman Judith
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1730 Tucker Rd
Hood River, OR 97031-9688 - Co-owners
- Davidson Donna J
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1205P, 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 Newman Judith, a co-owned, certificate issued March 7, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 3, 1997, 51 years after the 1946 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17630 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1205P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23 (serial 23-221, cancelled March 1, 1961). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1205P: Accident on June 3, 2014 at Bellingham, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3C 65 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing on a narrow airstrip, which resulted in a collision with trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR14CA223 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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