Piper J5A
N21579 is a Piper J5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Warrensburg, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2022 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 27, 1955. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J5A · all J5As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper J5 Cub Cruiser family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 5-789
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 77 mph
- Transponder code
- A1CF84 (octal 50347604)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2022
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 27, 1955
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00215610
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ollison Lewis e
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1405 Charleston Ct
Warrensburg, MO 64093-2470 - Co-owners
- Ollison Vicki L / Ollison Troy e
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 1
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N21579 links to the rest of the register
- Piper J5 Cub Cruiser 294 registered
- Piper 44,844 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Warrensburg, MO 74 aircraft registered in this town
- Skyhaven Airport · RCM
- Missouri 5,813 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper J5 Cub Cruiser 12 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper J5 Cub Cruiser 4 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper J5 Cub Cruiser 94 supplemental type certificates
- Where N21579 is now · Last seen today at 5:04 pm.
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The public federal record on N21579, 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 Ollison Lewis e, a co-owned, certificate issued June 29, 2022, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 27, 1955, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5-789 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21579 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Farrington Aircraft Corp GYTRAN (serial 01, cancelled February 7, 1997); Cessna 182P (serial 18261727, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 29, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N21579: Accident on May 9, 1983 at Marysville, CA: minor 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182P · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data