Piper J3C-65
N59941 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2007 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 2015.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 11:08 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper J-3 Cub family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 8396
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C90-12F · 95 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A7C1D4 (octal 51740724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 27, 2007
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 3, 2015
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00812075
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
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.
Connections how N59941 links to the rest of the register
- Piper J-3 Cub 3,804 registered
- Piper 44,842 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C90-12F 54 aircraft with this engine series · 95 hp
- FAA orders naming the Piper J-3 Cub 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper J-3 Cub 46 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper J-3 Cub 241 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C90-12F 6 airworthiness directives
- Where N59941 is now · Last seen Tuesday at 11:08 am.
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The public federal record on N59941, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued March 27, 2007, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 3, 2015, 73 years after the 1942 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 8396 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N59941 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 N59941. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data