Piper J3C-65
N70643 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 Flying S Ranch LLC, an LLC in Adrian, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 20, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17661
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A96DD8 (octal 52266730)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 20, 1973
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00400837
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying S Ranch LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5242 NW County Road 14002
Adrian, MO 64720-4823
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 N70643, 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 Flying S Ranch LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 29, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 20, 1973, 27 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 17661 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N70643 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 N70643: Accident on August 22, 2021 at Adrian, MO: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21FA380 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