Lockheed P-38L
N3JB is a Lockheed P-38L, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Windward Aviation INC, a corporation in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 8, 1983 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lockheed
- Model
- P-38L · all P-38Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 44-53097
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Allison V1710 SERIES · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 288 mph
- Transponder code
- A31B6A (octal 50615552)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 8, 1983
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Limited
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00081333
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Windward Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9404 E Marginal Way S
Seattle, WA 98108-4046
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 N3JB, 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 Windward Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 8, 1983, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Limited certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-53097 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3JB 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 N3JB. 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