Cessna 172E
N3965S is a Cessna 172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Heppner, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 10, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172E · all 172Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 17251165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A49C2B (octal 51116053)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2014
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 10, 1964
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00870774
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jepsen William R Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 188
Heppner, OR 97836-0188 - Co-owners
- Jepsen Nancy J Trustee
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 N3965S, 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 Jepsen William R Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued February 3, 2014, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 10, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17251165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3965S 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]
1 NTSB record under N3965S: Accident on September 2, 2021 at Enterprise, OR: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172E · operated under 091
The fatigue fracture of the nose gear upper torque link, which resulted in the separation of the torque link from the shock strut and a loss of directional control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR21LA337 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