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N35920

Piper J4E

Valid Alabama

N35920 is a Piper J4E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Akron, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2003 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 2, 1959.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J4E · all J4Es and related versions
Serial number
4-1450
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1941
Cruising speed
75 mph
Transponder code
A408F3 (octal 51004363)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 14, 2003
Expires
January 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · July 2, 1959
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00903013

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Strickland Thomas M
Type
Individual
Address
1491 County Rd 34
Akron, AL 35441

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 N35920, 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 Strickland Thomas M, an individual, certificate issued April 14, 2003, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 2, 1959, 18 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4-1450 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N35920 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 N35920: Accident on May 16, 2005 at Akron, AL: 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

ATL05CA080Accident on May 16, 2005 at Akron, AL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J4E · operated under 091

The pilot's premature liftoff and his failure to attain adequate airspeed which resulted in a stall/mush. Also causal was the pilot's delay in aborting the takeoff.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL05CA080 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