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N30986

Piper J4A

Valid Ohio

N30986 is a Piper J4A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 24, 1958.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J4A · all J4As and related versions
Serial number
4-1264
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
75 mph
Transponder code
A34450 (octal 50642120)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 17, 2023
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
August 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · November 24, 1958
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00891353

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lundy William C
Type
Individual
Address
3584 Avalon Rd
Shaker Heights, OH 44120-5205

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N30986, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Lundy William C, an individual, certificate issued April 17, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4-1264 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N30986 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N30986: Accident on August 5, 1985 at Duncan, OK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

FTW85LA328Accident on August 5, 1985 at Duncan, OK: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J4A · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW85LA328 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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