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N31012

Piper J3L-65

Valid New York

N31012 is a Piper J3L-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Vestal, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 5, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J3L-65 · all J3L-65s and related versions
Serial number
5255
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-145B SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
67 mph
Transponder code
A34967 (octal 50644547)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 1, 2021
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · May 5, 1956
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00431403

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Van Gorden Jeffrey L
Type
Co-owned
Address
164 Knight Rd
Vestal, NY 13850-5236
Co-owners
Van Gorden Ellen J

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 · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N31012, 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 Van Gorden Jeffrey L, a co-owned, certificate issued September 1, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. 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 5255 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N31012 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N31012. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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