Piper J3C-65
N32461 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Christler Tony, a partnership in Enumclaw, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 10, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5242
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A38070 (octal 50700160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2010
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 10, 1957
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00394932
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christler Tony
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 40414 302Nd Ave SE
Enumclaw, WA 98022-7715 - Co-owners
- Christler Lockie
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N32461, 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 Christler Tony, a partnership, certificate issued November 5, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 10, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5242 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N32461 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-151 (serial 287515161, cancelled December 28, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N32461: Accident on June 26, 1985 at Reedsburg, WI: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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 PA-28-151 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI85FA253 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