{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1957-05-13","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1995-05-24","city":"INTL FALLS","country_code":"US","county_code":"071","cruise_speed_mph":67,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17003","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"A&C65 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7100510","mode_s_code":"50275061","mode_s_hex":"A17A31","model":"J3C-65","n_number":"N1946","name":"TAKAKHI STEVE B","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"MEESTER MARK L","plain_english":"N1946 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 co-owned owners in Intl Falls, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 1995 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 13, 1957.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Takakhi Steve B, a co-owned, certificate issued May 24, 1995, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 13, 1957, 16 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6570 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1946 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Aero Commander L3805 (serial 1, cancelled May 7, 1974); Douglas DC3-G202A (serial 3271, cancelled January 31, 1941); Alexander Aircraft Co COMBINATION EAGLEROC (serial 228, cancelled November 1, 1934). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N1946. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"6570","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1026 3RD ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00462950","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1946","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1941,"zip":"566492209"}