Piper J-3
N2CE is a Piper J-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 2 seats. It is registered to World Aircraft INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2000 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 6, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J-3 · all J-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3341
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1939
- Cruising speed
- 56 mph
- Transponder code
- A18D88 (octal 50306610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2000
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 6, 1966
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00060792
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- World Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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 N2CE, 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 World Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 15, 2000, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 6, 1966, 27 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 3341 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2CE 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 N2CE: Accident on August 25, 1996 at Aiken, SC: 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 · operated under 091
the pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing; and his loss of directional control, which was followed by impact with trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA96LA217 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
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