Piper J5C
N28151 is a Piper J5C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Churchville, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2000 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 21, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J5C · all J5Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5-119
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 77 mph
- Transponder code
- A2D4D3 (octal 50552323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 2000
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · January 21, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00300303
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stewart Thomas
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1207 Palmer Rd
Churchville, NY 14428-9572
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 N28151, 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 Stewart Thomas, an individual, certificate issued July 10, 2000, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 21, 1956, 16 years after the 1940 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 5-119 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N28151 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 N28151: Accident on August 1, 2025 at Rochester, NY: fatal, substantial damage (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 J5C · operated under 091
On August 1, 2025, about 1330 eastern daylight time, a Piper J5C, NC 28151, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Rochester, New York. The passenger was fatally injured, and the pilot was seriously injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to the pilot, the airplane had not flown in several months and he had to remove mud dauber nests from the wings. They took off from a private runway, which was the owner/passenger’s, on the west side of Rochester, New York and flew east for about 30 minutes to …
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- 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