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N3257N

Jenkins Eugene Chad WAG A BOND PA-17

Valid Nevada

N3257N is a Jenkins Eugene Chad WAG A BOND PA-17, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sandy Valley, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2011 and expires on January 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Jenkins Eugene Chad
Model
WAG A BOND PA-17
Serial number
1261
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A3843D (octal 50702075)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 11, 2011
Expires
January 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01063964

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jenkins Eugene Chad
Type
Individual
Address
777 E Quartz Ave Pmb 8023
Sandy Valley, NV 89019-8501

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 2

1995-12-19Beech 58 · exported to Czech Republic · Valid registration
—Piper J3C-65 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N3257N, 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 Jenkins Eugene Chad, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 2011, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1261 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3257N was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH1757, cancelled December 19, 1995); Piper J3C-65 (serial 22447, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N3257N: Accident on September 22, 1982 at Near Nome, AK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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

ANC82DAA20Accident on September 22, 1982 at Near Nome, AK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 22447

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC82DAA20 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