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N20231

Piper J-3

Valid Texas

N20231 is a Piper J-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1937. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 7, 1959.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J-3 · all J-3s and related versions
Serial number
2031
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A40 SERIES · 40 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1937
Cruising speed
56 mph
Transponder code
A19C4C (octal 50316114)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 25, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · August 7, 1959
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00301012

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gregory Richard L JR
Type
Individual
Address
5338 Cornish St
Houston, TX 77007-1912

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N20231, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Gregory Richard L JR, an individual, certificate issued August 25, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 7, 1959, 22 years after the 1937 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2031 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N20231 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N20231. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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