Piper J3C-65
N1474N is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tanzer Matthew M, a partnership in Durham, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 23140
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A0BFA2 (octal 50137642)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 21, 1955
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00111790
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tanzer Matthew M
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 5101 Kenmont Dr
Durham, NC 27713 - Co-owners
- Smith Winston R
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.
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The public federal record on N1474N, 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 Tanzer Matthew M, a partnership, certificate issued March 8, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 21, 1955, 8 years after the 1947 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 23140 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1474N according to the deregistered file. [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]
2 NTSB records under N1474N: Accident on September 10, 1995 at Mooresville, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 8, 1985 at Ferriday, LA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3C-65 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper use of the carburetor heat resulting in the formation of carburetor ice and subsequent loss of engine power.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3C-65 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data