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N25986

Piper J3F-65

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWashington

N25986 is a Piper J3F-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Douglas R Herlihy LLC, an LLC in Goldendale, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 3, 1959.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J3F-65 · all J3F-65s and related versions
Serial number
3934
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Franklin 4AC176B SER · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1939
Cruising speed
67 mph
Transponder code
A27C7C (octal 50476174)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
June 16, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
June 16, 2024
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 3, 1959
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00453172

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Douglas R Herlihy LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
PO Box 1220
Goldendale, WA 98620-1220

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N25986, 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 Douglas R Herlihy LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 16, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 3, 1959, 20 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3934 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N25986 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 N25986. 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 September 30, 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