Piper J5A
N32887 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 co-owned owners in Mankato, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 1988 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 31, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J5A · all J5As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5-393
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 77 mph
- Transponder code
- A38F98 (octal 50707630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 6, 1988
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 31, 1957
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00582033
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Groskurth Walter I
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 20111 603Rd Ln
Mankato, MN 56001-8592 - Co-owners
- Davey Burnard V
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 N32887, 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 Groskurth Walter I, a co-owned, certificate issued July 6, 1988, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 31, 1957, 17 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 5-393 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N32887 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 N32887: Accident on October 31, 1987 at Devils Lake, ND: 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 J5A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN88LA017 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