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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Jones Peter M BOEING/JONES 75
N3977A is a Jones Peter M BOEING/JONES 75, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Downers Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 25, 1983.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Jones Peter M
- Model
- BOEING/JONES 75 · all BOEING/JONES 75s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Stearman: welded steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric over all of it. This is how the Jones Peter M BOEING/JONES 75 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
- AR-27
- 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 · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A4A018 (octal 51120030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 22, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · November 25, 1983
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00480844
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Siegfried Thelma J Trustee
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 628 86Th St
Downers Grove, IL 60516-4936
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N3977A links to the rest of the register
- Jones Peter M BOEING/JONES 75 15 registered
- Jones Peter M 15 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental W670 series 987 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Downers Grove, IL 86 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,066 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental W670 series 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental W670 series 8 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N3977A, 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 Siegfried Thelma J Trustee, an individual, certificate issued November 22, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated November 25, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AR-27 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3977A 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 N3977A. 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 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data