Piper J3L-65
N38346 is a Piper J3L-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to High Country Cub LLC, an LLC in Lakewood, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 20, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3L-65 · all J3L-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6954
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-145B SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A46972 (octal 51064562)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 20, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00300334
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- High Country Cub LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1030 Independence St
Lakewood, CO 80215-4609
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 N38346, 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 High Country Cub LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 10, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 20, 1956, 15 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 6954 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38346 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]
2 NTSB records under N38346: Accident on August 27, 1988 at Youngstown, OH: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 31, 1987 at Mercer, PA: no 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J-3 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88LA222 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J-3 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC87LA157 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