The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily · Carbon Free Flight by 2050
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N33252

Piper J3L-65

Valid Florida

N33252 is a Piper J3L-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to N33252 LLC, an LLC in Jupiter, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 5, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J3L-65 · all J3L-65s and related versions
Serial number
5927
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1940
Cruising speed
67 mph
Transponder code
A3A05F (octal 50720137)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 10, 2026
Expires
May 31, 2033
Last FAA action
May 10, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · January 5, 1956
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00652163

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
N33252 LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3161 SE Chandelle Rd
Jupiter, FL 33478-1909

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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N33252, 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 N33252 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 10, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 5, 1956, 16 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 5927 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N33252 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N33252: Accident on October 18, 1997 at Reeseville, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

CHI98LA019Accident on October 18, 1997 at Reeseville, WI: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3L-65 · operated under 091

failure of the normal braking system, due to a low level of brake fluid. Factors relating to the accident were: inadequate inspection of the aircraft by other maintenance personnel, the pilot's failure to check the brakes after brake maintenance/inspection, the tailwind, and the location of trees.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI98LA019 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