Piper J3C-65
N88313 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Freeman Heritage Collection LLC, an LLC in Kingsbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2006 and expires on August 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper J-3 Cub family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 15931
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- AC2B91 (octal 53025621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 25, 2006
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00501921
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Freeman Heritage Collection LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 170 Pershing Ln
Kingsbury, TX 78638-2506
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.
Connections how N88313 links to the rest of the register
- Piper J-3 Cub 3,804 registered
- Piper 44,842 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Freeman Heritage Collection LLC 25 aircraft in the fleet
- Kingsbury, TX 39 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper J-3 Cub 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper J-3 Cub 46 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper J-3 Cub 241 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N88313.json.
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The public federal record on N88313, 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 Freeman Heritage Collection LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 25, 2006, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15931 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88313 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 N88313: Accident on March 13, 2013 at Seguin, TX: minor 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3C-65 · operated under 091
The partial loss of engine power for reasons that could not be undetermined because an examination of the engine did not reveal any malfunctions or failures that would preclude normal operation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data