Piper J3C-65
N71027 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 Bmg Aviation Leasing LLC, an LLC in Bloomington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 17, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18046
- 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
- A97ECB (octal 52277313)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 27, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 17, 1958
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00360977
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bmg Aviation Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 952 S Kirby Rd
Bloomington, IN 47403-9392
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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 N71027, 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 Bmg Aviation Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 27, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 17, 1958, 12 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 18046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71027 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 N71027: Accident on October 8, 2003 at Florence, IN: 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
The pilot prematurely lifted off during the takeoff with inadequate airspeed which resulted in the airplane stalling. Factors associated with the accident were there unsuitable/rough terrain that the pilot used for takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI04LA006 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