Piper J3C-65
N26096 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairfax Station, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2006 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising, dated November 24, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4057
- 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
- A282AF (octal 50501257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2006
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Aerial advertising · November 24, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00153242
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Follansbee Art
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10721 Shadowglen Trl
Fairfax Station, VA 22039-2429
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 N26096, 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 Follansbee Art, an individual, certificate issued March 3, 2006, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 24, 2000, 61 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 4057 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N26096 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 N26096: Accident on April 28, 2001 at Annapolis, MD: 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.
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 J3-C65 · operated under 091
pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing. A factor was the crosswind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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