Piper J3C-65
N26182 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gatesville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 30, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4107
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A2863F (octal 50503077)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 30, 1958
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00303282
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mallach Kenneth L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 404 Park St
Gatesville, TX 76528-2334
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 N26182, 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 Mallach Kenneth L, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 30, 1958, 10 years after the 1948 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 4107 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N26182 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 N26182: Accident on April 9, 1983 at Spencer, 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.
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-85 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC83LA089 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data