Piper J3L-65
N38608 is a Piper J3L-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Farmington, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 1, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3L-65 · all J3L-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7140
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-145B SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A4740D (octal 51072015)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 1, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00780424
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christopherson Kyle J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 5403 188Th St W
Farmington, MN 55024-8959 - Co-owners
- Christopherson Michelle K
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 · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N38608, 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 Christopherson Kyle J, a co-owned, certificate issued September 7, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7140 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38608 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N38608. 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