Piper J3C-65
N3785N is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Madison, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 14432
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A-65-8 · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A45497 (octal 51052227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 31, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 25, 1981
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00120104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bedard Michael J Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 111 Brookside Cir
Madison, AL 35758-7677
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3785N, 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 Bedard Michael J Trustee, an individual, certificate issued July 29, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 25, 1981, 36 years after the 1945 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 14432 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3785N was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mooney M20F (serial 680119, cancelled June 26, 1968); Beech 35 (serial D-1008, cancelled October 25, 1954). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3785N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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