Piper J3C-65
N17171 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Charlottesville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 21, 1962.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 19970
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A1204B (octal 50220113)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 21, 1962
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00113406
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kutilek Emil J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 5525
Charlottesville, VA 22905-5525
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N17171, 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 Kutilek Emil J, an individual, certificate issued July 12, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 19970 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17171 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Stinson SR-9C (serial 5154, cancelled April 22, 1948); Cessna 150L (serial 15073645, cancelled date not given). 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 N17171: Accident on November 30, 1984 at Furnace Creek, CA: 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: Cessna 150L · 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
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