Piper J-3C
N88037 is a Piper J-3C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial advertising, dated June 10, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J-3C · all J-3Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 15654
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 54 mph
- Transponder code
- AC20B6 (octal 53020266)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial advertising · June 10, 1974
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00722001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Willke Sue E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1804 Cheviot Rd
Sewickley, PA 15143-9003
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 N88037, 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 Willke Sue E, an individual, certificate issued May 12, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial advertising; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15654 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88037 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]
2 NTSB records under N88037: Accident on October 29, 1995 at Rochester, IN: serious injuries, destroyed. Accident on February 18, 1983 at Stockbridge, GA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J-3C · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain adequate airspeed after takeoff, which resulted in a stall. A factor relating to the accident was: the gusty wind condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96LA022 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J-3C · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL83LA109 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