Piper J3C-65
N5985V 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 Lone Star Flight Museum, a corporation in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 1, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 13640
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A7BE3A (octal 51737072)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 1, 1958
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00031487
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lone Star Flight Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 11551 Aerospace Ave
Houston, TX 77034
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 N5985V, 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 Lone Star Flight Museum, a corporation, certificate issued August 16, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 1, 1958, 13 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 13640 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5985V 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]
2 NTSB records under N5985V: Accident on August 3, 1997 at Castle Rock, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 22, 1995 at Englewood, CO: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3C-65 · operated under 091
A partial loss of engine power due to a cylinder exhaust valve jammed in the open position from excessive carbon deposits. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain on which to make a forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97LA298 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3C · operated under 091
A PARTIAL POWER LOSS DUE TO A STUCK NUMBER FOUR EXHAUST VALVE. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR A FORCED LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW95LA312 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