Piper J3C-65
N88000 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 Air N88000 INC, a corporation in Waterford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 29, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15617
- 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
- AC2046 (octal 53020106)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 29, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00401991
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air N88000 INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5119 Highland Rd # 276
Waterford, MI 48327-1915
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 N88000, 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 Air N88000 INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 29, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15617 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88000 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 N88000: Accident on July 19, 2011 at Williams Lake, MI: serious 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
A loss of control during approach due to the front seat passenger's belt buckle being wedged between the rear seat,the rudder pedal and floor board.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11CA498 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