Piper J3C-65
N6488H is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Clewiston, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2013 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 19669
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A8866B (octal 52103153)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2013
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00232988
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hutchings Alan J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 225 W Del Monte Ave
Clewiston, FL 33440-5203 - Co-owners
- Hutchings Laurie G
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 N6488H, 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 Hutchings Alan J, a co-owned, certificate issued February 25, 2013, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 19669 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6488H 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 N6488H: Accident on April 3, 2003 at Pahokee, FL: serious 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 J3C-65 · operated under 091
The instructor's inadequate in-flight decision and his delay in taking remedial actions. Also causal was the student pilot's failure to maintain airspeed which resulted in a stall. Low altitude flight is a contributing factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA03LA092 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