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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Finney Michael E FINNEY J-3 CUB
N88159 is a Finney Michael E FINNEY J-3 CUB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Albany, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 28, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Finney Michael E
- Model
- FINNEY J-3 CUB
- Serial number
- MEF-2
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C90-8F · 95 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- AC24B5 (octal 53022265)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 28, 2010
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00225159
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Finney Michael e Trustee
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7600 N County Road 650 e
Albany, IN 47320-9235 - Co-owners
- Finney Sherry A Trustee
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
Connections how N88159 links to the rest of the register
- Finney Michael E 2 aircraft on the register
- Continental C90-8F 30 aircraft with this engine series · 95 hp
- Albany, IN 4 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,704 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental C90-8F 6 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N88159.json.
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The public federal record on N88159, 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 Finney Michael e Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued May 5, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 28, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MEF-2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88159 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15776, cancelled January 16, 1952). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N88159. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data