Piper J-3
N38798 is a Piper J-3, 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 Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 1964 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 14, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J-3 · all J-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7275
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-145B SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 56 mph
- Transponder code
- A478FF (octal 51074377)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 1964
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 14, 1957
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00160484
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Seltman Jack
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7824 E Dublin
Wichita, KS 67206
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 N38798, 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 Seltman Jack, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 1964, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 14, 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 7275 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38798 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 N38798. 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