Piper J5A
N35280 is a Piper J5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Nokomis, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 18, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J5A · all J5As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5-598
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 77 mph
- Transponder code
- A3EFC4 (octal 50767704)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 18, 1957
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00292833
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoffman Steven L Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 23175 E 23Rd Rd
Nokomis, IL 62075-3832 - Co-owners
- Hoffman Roger A Trustee / Saam Susan M Trustee
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 N35280, 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 Hoffman Steven L Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued October 22, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 18, 1957, 16 years after the 1941 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 5-598 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N35280 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 N35280: Accident on October 22, 1983 at Arlington, TN: 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 J5A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL84LA027 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