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N42426

Piper J3C-65

Sale reported Pennsylvania

N42426 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rew, Pennsylvania. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 28, 1958.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
Serial number
14688
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
67 mph
Transponder code
A50D38 (octal 51206470)

Registration

Status
Sale reported
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
September 19, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · March 28, 1958
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00993170

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sale Reported
Type
Individual
Address
75 Northland Rd
Rew, PA 16744-1401

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

2013-03-26Hughes TH-55A · Sale reported, canceled

Records check free · 3 to understand · 1 clear

The public federal record on N42426, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14688 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N42426 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes TH-55A (serial 64-18076, cancelled March 26, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N42426: Accident on February 28, 1983 at Phoenix, AZ: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX83FA121Accident on February 28, 1983 at Phoenix, AZ: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 1050388

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 269A · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX83FA121 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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