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N42544

Piper J3C-65

Valid Illinois

N42544 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 Mount Sterling, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 11, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 22, 1962.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
Serial number
14821
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
67 mph
Transponder code
A51133 (octal 51210463)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 11, 2020
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · June 22, 1962
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00961844

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vincent Mark L
Type
Individual
Address
419 Camden Rd
Mount Sterling, IL 62353-1058

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 N42544, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Vincent Mark L, an individual, certificate issued September 11, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [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 14821 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N42544 according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N42544. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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