Piper J3C-65
N98453 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Converse, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18646
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- ADBD23 (octal 53336443)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00823670
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Miller Gerald E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6802 Saharastone Dr
Converse, TX 78109-3472
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N98453, 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 Miller Gerald E, an individual, certificate issued April 28, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18646 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98453 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N98453. 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