Piper J3C-65
N42257 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Graham, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 15, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 19, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 14507
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A50634 (octal 51203064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 15, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 19, 1957
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00821754
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pierce Stephan L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 196 US Highway 380 E
Graham, TX 76450-6447
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 N42257, 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 Pierce Stephan L, an individual, certificate issued January 15, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 19, 1957, 12 years after the 1945 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 14507 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N42257 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 N42257: Accident on March 31, 1991 at Arbuckle, CA: 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 J3 · operated under 091
THAT THE PILOT USED EXCESSIVE BRAKES DURING THE LANDING ROLL-OUT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA153 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