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N88334

Piper J3C-65

N88334 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Buckley, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 19, 1957.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
Serial number
15952
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
67 mph
Transponder code
AC2BD8 (octal 53025730)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 22, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 22, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · July 19, 1957
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00791931

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Leng Jeffrey E
Type
Co-owned
Address
28202 142Nd St E
Buckley, WA 98321-8575
Co-owners
Leng Janielou

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N88334, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Leng Jeffrey E, a co-owned, certificate issued October 22, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15952 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N88334 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N88334: Accident on September 14, 1996 at Arlington, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

SEA96LA215Accident on September 14, 1996 at Arlington, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3C-65 · operated under 091

inadequate visual lookout by the pilot of the Piper J3, and failure of the flight instructor in the Bellance to ensure that clearance was maintained from the other moving aircraft. Factors relating to the accident were: the inherent visual restrictions encountered by pilots of tailwheel equipped aircraft, and the proximity of the other aircraft that was moving on the ground.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA96LA215 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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