Piper J3C-65
N44778 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Kittiwake LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 27, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4700
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A5680C (octal 51264014)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 27, 1958
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00442674
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kittiwake LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 55 W 14Th St Ste 101
Helena, MT 59601-3387
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N44778, 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 Kittiwake LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 24, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 27, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4700 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N44778 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 (serial 2760, cancelled August 12, 1974). 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]
1 NTSB record under N44778: Accident on May 23, 2006 at Hollywood, FL: 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 J-3 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the instructional flight during the landing roll in crosswind conditions, which resulted in a collision with a runway sign. Factors contributing to the accident were a crosswind, and the student pilot's inadequate compensation for the crosswind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC06CA061 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
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