Piper J3C-65
N6839H 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 an individual in Waupaca, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 21, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20064
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85-8F · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A911F7 (octal 52210767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 11, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 21, 2020
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00340047
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Suehs Joshua Carl Ward
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 515 Woodland Cir
Waupaca, WI 54981-1091
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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 N6839H, 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 Suehs Joshua Carl Ward, an individual, certificate issued May 11, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 21, 2020, 74 years after the 1946 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 20064 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6839H 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 N6839H: Accident on January 9, 1984 at Battle Creek, NE: 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC84LA061 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