Piper J3C-65
N88390 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 Cape May Aerial Advertising LLC, an LLC in Cape May Ch, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 15, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 16008
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- AC2CA6 (octal 53026246)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 23, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · July 15, 1971
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00551901
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cape May Aerial Advertising LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 317 Route 47 S
Cape May Ch, NJ 08210-2532
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 N88390, 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 Cape May Aerial Advertising LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 23, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 1971, 25 years after the 1946 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88390 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 N88390: Accident on October 15, 2004 at Reserve, LA: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-22 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to compensate for the existing wind conditions. A contributing factor was the strong crosswind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW05CA008 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