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N91371

Piper J3C-65

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNorth Carolina

N91371 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in South Mills, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 9, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 27, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
Serial number
7249
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1941
Cruising speed
67 mph
Transponder code
ACA537 (octal 53122467)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
March 9, 2020
Expires
March 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 27, 1996
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00025751

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Franken Daniel Jarrett
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
108 Buck Run
South Mills, NC 27976-9485

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 2

1991-04-01Piper PA-38-112 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1974-03-12Curtiss Wright C-46A · exported to Bolivia · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N91371, 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 Franken Daniel Jarrett, an individual, certificate issued March 9, 2020, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 27, 1996, 55 years after the 1941 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7249 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N91371 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 3881A0167, cancelled April 1, 1991); Curtiss Wright C-46A (serial 26783, cancelled March 12, 1974). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N91371: Accident on April 14, 1988 at Painesville, OH: no injuries, destroyed. 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

ATL88LA143Accident on April 14, 1988 at Painesville, OH: no injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 3881A0167

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 September 30, 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