Piper J3L-65
N32809 is a Piper J3L-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mc Alpin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2003 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 2, 1945.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3L-65 · all J3L-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5618
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A38E82 (octal 50707202)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 29, 2003
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 2, 1945
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00313108
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kane Thomas Edward
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7330 188Th Pl
Mc Alpin, FL 32062-2757
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N32809, 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 Kane Thomas Edward, an individual, certificate issued December 29, 2003, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 2, 1945, consistent with the 1945 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5618 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N32809 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech G18S (serial BA473, cancelled September 7, 1990); Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R-7535092, cancelled January 21, 1975). 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 N32809: Accident on November 2, 1984 at Laconia, NH: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Beech G18S · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC85LA018 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