Piper J3C-65
N1946 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Intl Falls, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 1995 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 13, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6570
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A17A31 (octal 50275061)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 1995
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 13, 1957
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00462950
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Takakhi Steve B
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1026 3Rd St
Intl Falls, MN 56649-2209 - Co-owners
- Meester Mark 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.
Earlier use of this number 3
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The public federal record on N1946, 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 Takakhi Steve B, a co-owned, certificate issued May 24, 1995, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 13, 1957, 16 years after the 1941 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 6570 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1946 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Aero Commander L3805 (serial 1, cancelled May 7, 1974); Douglas DC3-G202A (serial 3271, cancelled January 31, 1941); Alexander Aircraft Co COMBINATION EAGLEROC (serial 228, cancelled November 1, 1934). 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 N1946. 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