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N21577

Piper J3C-65

Valid Iowa

N21577 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1938. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sioux City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 21, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
Serial number
2433
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1938
Cruising speed
67 mph
Transponder code
A1CF82 (octal 50347602)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 1, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
July 1, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · September 21, 1955
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00001512

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lihs Aaron J
Type
Individual
Address
1798 Portland Blvd
Sioux City, IA 51106-5488

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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 N21577, 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 Lihs Aaron J, an individual, certificate issued July 1, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 21, 1955, 17 years after the 1938 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 2433 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N21577 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 N21577. 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