Piper J-3C
N42408 is a Piper J-3C, 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 Downey, California. The FAA lists the registration as "registration certificate revoked". It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J-3C · all J-3Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 14668
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 54 mph
- Transponder code
- A50CF4 (octal 51206364)
Registration
- Status
- Registration certificate revoked
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- January 14, 1977
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00128078
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sullivan Robert JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8362 E Dinsdale
Downey, CA 90240
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N42408, 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.
Registration status is "Registration certificate revoked". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14668 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42408 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 14668, cancelled November 17, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N42408. 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