Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3
N45043 is a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Jespersen Jay A, a partnership in Bettles Field, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 6, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Naval Aircraft Factory
- Model
- N3N-3 · all N3N-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2716
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A5751C (octal 51272434)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 6, 1959
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00402744
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jespersen Jay A
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- PO Box 26010
Bettles Field, AK 99726-0010 - Co-owners
- Jespersen Judith A
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 N45043, 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 Jespersen Jay A, a partnership, certificate issued December 21, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2716 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N45043 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]
1 NTSB record under N45043: Accident on April 3, 1996 at Chandler, AZ: 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: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 · operated under 091
The failure of both the engine driven and hand wobble fuel pumps, which resulted in fuel starvation to the engine.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX96LA153 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data