Piper J3C-65
N1548N 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 co-owned owners in Bremerton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 5, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 23081
- 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
- A0DC88 (octal 50156210)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 5, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00402130
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Horwitz Kenneth D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4871 Aviator Ln NW
Bremerton, WA 98312-9573 - Co-owners
- Horwitz Catherine L
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 N1548N, 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 Horwitz Kenneth D, a co-owned, certificate issued July 22, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 5, 1956, 9 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 23081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1548N 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]
1 NTSB record under N1548N: Accident on June 26, 1999 at Dawson, MD: fatal, destroyed (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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3C-85 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper decision to turn toward rising terrain with inadequate terrain clearance. Factors were the density altitude, downdraft, and the pilot's decision to operate at a weight in excess of the maximum allowable gross weight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC99FA161 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