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N70927

Piper J-3C

Valid Nebraska

N70927 is a Piper J-3C, 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 O'Neill, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 24, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J-3C · all J-3Cs and related versions
Serial number
17954
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85-8F · 85 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1946
Cruising speed
54 mph
Transponder code
A978BB (octal 52274273)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 6, 2014
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 24, 2017
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00030947

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Grosch Dick D
Type
Co-owned
Address
87304 Hwy 281
O'Neill, NE 68763
Co-owners
Grosch Janet L

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N70927, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Grosch Dick D, a co-owned, certificate issued May 6, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 2017, 71 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17954 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N70927 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N70927. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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