Piper/Kreller Alvin J3C-65
N9178D is a Piper/Kreller Alvin J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 4, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper/Kreller Alvin
- Model
- J3C-65
- Serial number
- AK93R101
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- ACB420 (octal 53132040)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 4, 1997
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00185681
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Petschauer Erik
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 129 Laurel Hill Est
Honesdale, PA 18431-1190 - Co-owners
- Killam Michael / Langendoerfer Troy / PC Aero LLC
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
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The public federal record on N9178D, 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 Petschauer Erik, a co-owned, certificate issued September 16, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 4, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AK93R101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9178D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-160 (serial 22-6235, cancelled January 2, 1976). 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 N9178D. 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 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