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N98041

Piper J3C-65

N98041 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 an individual in Creston, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2012 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 28, 1984.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
Serial number
18188
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1946
Cruising speed
67 mph
Transponder code
ADAE22 (octal 53327042)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 24, 2012
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 28, 1984
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00213800

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rosman Patrick R
Type
Individual
Address
32755 Creston Butte Rd N
Creston, WA 99117-9518

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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N98041, 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 Rosman Patrick R, an individual, certificate issued October 24, 2012, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 28, 1984, 38 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18188 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N98041 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 N98041: Accident on May 13, 2007 at Quincy, CA: 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

LAX07CA166Accident on May 13, 2007 at Quincy, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

The pilot's excessive use of the brakes, which resulted in a nose over.

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 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