Piper J3C-50
N24806 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 co-owned owners in Bentonville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 4, 1947. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-50 · all J3C-50s 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 J-3 Cub 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
- 3459
- 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 · Cont Motor A50 SERIES · 50 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1939
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A2502E (octal 50450056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 31, 2024
- 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 · September 4, 1947
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00376171
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- King Barry J
- 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
- 710 Gower Ct
Bentonville, AR 72712-8335 - Co-owners
- King Shelly 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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N24806 links to the rest of the register
- Piper J-3 Cub 3,804 registered
- Piper 44,839 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A50 series 26 aircraft with this engine series · 50 hp
- Bentonville, AR 126 aircraft registered in this town
- Bentonville Muni/Louise M Thaden Field · VBT
- Arkansas 3,492 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper J-3 Cub 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper J-3 Cub 46 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper J-3 Cub 242 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N24806, 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 King Barry J, a co-owned, certificate issued January 31, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 4, 1947, 8 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 3459 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N24806 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15280389, cancelled June 7, 1989). 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) (November 3, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N24806: Accident on May 14, 1987 at Edgartown, MA: no 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 152 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data