Piper J3C-65
N87678 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Blanco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2015 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 12, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 19922
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-145B SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- AC100E (octal 53010016)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 2015
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 12, 1955
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00393216
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Benham John D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1589 Rocky Rd
Blanco, TX 78606-4338
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N87678, 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 Benham John D, an individual, certificate issued February 11, 2015, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 19922 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N87678 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed T-33A (serial 58-3689, cancelled March 11, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N87678. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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