Piper J3C-65
N42557 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 Kansas Taildraggers LLC, an LLC in Lawrence, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 11, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 14836
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A51159 (octal 51210531)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 11, 1956
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00371944
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kansas Taildraggers LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 24841 Stillwell Rd
Lawrence, KS 66044-7229
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 N42557, 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 Kansas Taildraggers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 17, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 11, 1956, 11 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 14836 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N42557 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N42557. 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