Piper L-21B
N3VU is a Piper L-21B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vincennes University, a government body in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 1977 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 29, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- L-21B · all L-21Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-3987
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1954
- Transponder code
- A31C8E (octal 50616216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 1977
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 29, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00760973
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vincennes University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2175 S Hoffman Rd
Indianapolis, IN 46241-3621 - Co-owners
- Aviation Maintenance Technology
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 N3VU, 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 Vincennes University, a government body, certificate issued March 10, 1977, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 29, 1977, 23 years after the 1954 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 18-3987 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3VU 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 N3VU: Accident on May 10, 1999 at Vincennes, IN: 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: Piper PA-18-L21B · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control after landing. Factors which contributed to this accident were the pilot's long touchdown, the rough area on the runway, and the wheat field.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA146 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
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