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N32686

Piper J5A

N32686 is a Piper J5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Union City, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 2, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J5A · all J5As and related versions
Serial number
5374
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1940
Cruising speed
77 mph
Transponder code
A38829 (octal 50704051)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 30, 2015
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · October 2, 1955
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00181963

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fortney Deborah S
Type
Individual
Address
2278 Gem Ave
Union City, CA 94587-5210

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 · 4 clear

The public federal record on N32686, 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 Fortney Deborah S, an individual, certificate issued June 30, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 2, 1955, 15 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5374 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N32686 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 N32686. 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