Piper-Hoesch J-3C-65
N16585 is a Piper-Hoesch J-3C-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 Ventura, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated May 7, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper-Hoesch
- Model
- J-3C-65
- Serial number
- RH 17868
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Transponder code
- A107CF (octal 50203717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 24, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Research and development; To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 10 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 7, 1985
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00012180
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alegre Richard E
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 9501 El Cajon St
Ventura, CA 93004-1756 - Co-owners
- Alegre Mary Kathryn
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N16585, 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 Alegre Richard E, a co-owned, certificate issued August 24, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 1985, 39 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 RH 17868 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16585 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas DC-4 (serial 10502, cancelled February 25, 1971); Waco YKS-6 (serial 4521, cancelled October 18, 1950). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N16585. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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