Piper J3C-65
N331JM is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Windsor, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 30, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 22158
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A39A5A (octal 50715132)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 30, 2004
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00114229
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Petersen Christopher
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8 Remington Rd
Windsor, CT 06095-3021
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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 N331JM, 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 Petersen Christopher, an individual, certificate issued October 27, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 30, 2004, 58 years after the 1946 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 22158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N331JM 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 N331JM: Accident on June 2, 2026 at East Granby, CT: minor 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 J5C-65 · operated under 091
On June 2, 2026, at 1151 eastern daylight time, a Piper J3C-65, N331JM, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near East Granby, Connecticut. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot stated that after takeoff, when the airplane was about 400 ft, he noticed the engine rpm drop slightly. When the rpm continued to drop, he turned to return to the airport. As the airplane descended to about 200 ft, the engine lost all power. The pilot subsequently conducted a forced landi…
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- 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