Piper J3L-65
N27120 is a Piper J3L-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Westville, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2013 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 13, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3L-65 · all J3L-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4385
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A2ACEA (octal 50526352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2013
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 13, 1963
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00750393
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Albertson James M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1307 Gillman Rd
Westville, FL 32464-9558
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N27120, 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 Albertson James M, an individual, certificate issued May 9, 2013, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4385 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N27120 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 414A (serial 414A0612, cancelled May 13, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N27120: Accident on March 18, 1995 at Tallassee, AL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 J-3L-65 · operated under 091
THE STUDENT PILOT'S FAILURE TO SEE AND AVOID THE UTILITY LINE WHILE PERFORMING UNWARRANTED LOW ALTITUDE MANEUVERS.
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