Piper J3C-65
N87965 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 Cambridge, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 12, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15583
- 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
- AC1B0D (octal 53015415)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 12, 1957
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00992051
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Daudt Kurt
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 33361 Cobalt Cir NW
Cambridge, MN 55008-7447
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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 N87965, 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 Daudt Kurt, an individual, certificate issued August 13, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 12, 1957, 11 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 15583 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87965 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 N87965: Accident on February 12, 2024 at South Lyon, MI: 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 clearance from trees during the landing approach.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA113 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