Piper J3F-65
N31118 is a Piper J3F-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 Villa Ric A, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 1974 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 13, 1962.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3F-65 · all J3F-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5336
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 4AC176B SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A34D24 (octal 50646444)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 1974
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 13, 1962
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00771443
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Walter E JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1141 Hilldale Ct
Villa Ric A, GA 30180
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 N31118, 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 Smith Walter E JR, an individual, certificate issued June 20, 1974, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 13, 1962, 22 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 5336 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N31118 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 N31118: Accident on April 14, 2002 at Carrollton, GA: 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 J-3 · operated under 091
The pilots failure to maintain flying speed that resulted in an inadvertent stall.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL02LA086 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