Piper J3C-65
N7440H 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 Glen Allan, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 24, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for crew training, dated November 8, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20707
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A75-8 · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- AA03C6 (octal 52401706)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 24, 2014
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Crew training · November 8, 2019
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00812487
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Woodruff William C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 586 Grace Rd
Glen Allan, MS 38744-9726
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 N7440H, 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 Woodruff William C, an individual, certificate issued December 24, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 8, 2019, 73 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 20707 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7440H 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 N7440H: Accident on April 7, 1996 at Midlothain, TX: 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 J3C-65 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain obstacle clearance.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96LA163 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