Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3
N87697 is a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Veneta, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 8, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Naval Aircraft Factory
- Model
- N3N-3 · all N3N-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2939
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-985-39 · 450 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- AC1053 (octal 53010123)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 8, 2023
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00102121
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robinet William J II
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 87130 Muirland Dr
Veneta, OR 97487-9503
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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 N87697, 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 Robinet William J II, an individual, certificate issued May 28, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 8, 2023, 82 years after the 1941 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 2939 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87697 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 N87697: Accident on August 5, 1983 at Lincoln, CA: serious injuries. 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: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3-2939 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX83LVG16 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