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N87869

Piper L-21B

N87869 is a Piper L-21B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dunn, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 12, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
L-21B · all L-21Bs and related versions
Serial number
18-3355
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1954
Transponder code
AC175A (octal 53013532)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 15, 2017
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 12, 1980
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00362091

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Coats Cheryl B Trustee
Type
Individual
Address
214 Erwin Chapel Rd
Dunn, NC 28334-7052

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

1959-03-12Piper J3C-65 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N87869, 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 Coats Cheryl B Trustee, an individual, certificate issued February 15, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 12, 1980, 26 years after the 1954 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 18-3355 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N87869 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15487, cancelled March 12, 1959). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N87869. 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