{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2005-12-08","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-06-24","city":"SAINT LOUIS","country_code":"US","county_code":"510","cruise_speed_mph":67,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17009","engine_horsepower":95,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"C90 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-24","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7100546","mode_s_code":"50623364","mode_s_hex":"A326F4","model":"J3L-65","n_number":"N302CB","name":"GORDON DAVID W","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CUCAMONGA","damage":"DEST","date":"1992-04-05","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX92FA169","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AN ADEQUATE ALTITUDE TO AVOID THE RISING TERRAIN OF THE BOX CANYON, AND, HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AN ADEQUATE AIRSPEED MARGIN ABOVE STALL WHILE MANEUVERING IN AN ATTEMPT TO REVERSE COURSE.  A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT HAVING BEEN DISTRACTED BY THE LEAD AIRPLANE'S PILOT BROADCAST THAT HE HAD BECOME TRAPPED IN THE CANYON.","registration":"N302CB","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on April 5, 1992 at Cucamonga, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"GORDON MELISSA AVERA","plain_english":"N302CB is a Piper J3L-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Saint Louis, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 8, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gordon David W, a co-owned, certificate issued June 24, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 8, 2005, 65 years after the 1940 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 4104 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N302CB was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Globe GC-1B (serial 231, cancelled July 27, 1992); Bellanca 17-30A (serial 79-30911, cancelled July 2, 1980). 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":"1 NTSB record under N302CB: Accident on April 5, 1992 at Cucamonga, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"4104","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1249 KINGS GLEN CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00023262","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N302CB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1940,"zip":"631311041"}