Piper PA-36-375
N3957E is a Piper PA-36-375, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Aurora Cooperative Elevator CO, a corporation in Aurora, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated October 27, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-36-375 · all PA-36-375s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Pawnee Brave crop sprayer: all-metal. This is how the Piper PA-36 Pawnee Brave family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 36-7802069
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-720 · 400 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A498AE (octal 51114256)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2010
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 27, 1978
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00850714
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aurora Cooperative Elevator CO
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 209
Aurora, NE 68818-0209
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N3957E links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-36 Pawnee Brave 99 registered
- Piper 44,838 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-720 120 aircraft with this engine series · 400 hp
- Aurora Cooperative Elevator CO 13 aircraft in the fleet
- Aurora, NE 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Aurora Muni/Al Potter Field · AUH
- Nebraska 2,949 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-36 Pawnee Brave 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-36 Pawnee Brave 39 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-36 Pawnee Brave 109 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-720 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-720 36 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N3957E, 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 Aurora Cooperative Elevator CO, a corporation, certificate issued April 15, 2010, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated October 27, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36-7802069 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3957E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 11BC (serial 11BC-41, cancelled February 6, 1960). 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 N3957E. 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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data