Piper J3C-65
N30598 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Cobb, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 25, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4965
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A33599 (octal 50632631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 30, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 25, 1958
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00381223
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Johnny L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 409 Bella Vista Dr
Fort Cobb, OK 73038-2241
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 N30598, 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 Jones Johnny L, an individual, certificate issued April 30, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 25, 1958, 18 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 4965 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N30598 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 N30598: Accident on February 2, 1997 at Cincinnati, OH: 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-65 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's inadequate supervision and delayed remedial reaction which resulted in the loss of directional control by the student pilot during the landing roll out.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC97LA052 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