Piper J3C-50
N23161 is a Piper J3C-50, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Shawver Aviation LLC, an LLC in Knoxville, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 24, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-50 · all J3C-50s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2943
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1939
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A20F7B (octal 50407573)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 24, 1961
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00046028
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shawver Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1770 S Lincoln St
Knoxville, IA 50138-1771
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.
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The public federal record on N23161, 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 Shawver Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 9, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 24, 1961, 22 years after the 1939 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 2943 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N23161 according to the deregistered file. [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 N23161: Accident on June 26, 2023 at Elbert, CO: 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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3C-50 · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of directional control during takeoff and subsequent excessive use of brakes which resulted in a nose-over. Contributing to the accident was his decision to takeoff downwind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA277 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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