{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1956-03-03","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1999-09-09","city":"CARTHAGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"125","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":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-12","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7100510","mode_s_code":"50637753","mode_s_hex":"A33FEB","model":"J3C-65","n_number":"N30837","name":"ZAZAS JAMES B","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WESTERLY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-08-06","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC91LA201","probable_cause":"ENGINE FAILURE FOR AN UNDETERMINED REASON. A FACTOR WAS THE PILOT MISJUDGING THE CLEARANCE OVER A FENCE DURING AN ATTEMPTED FORCED LANDING.","registration":"N30837","state":"RI","summary":"Accident on August 6, 1991 at Westerly, RI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N30837 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carthage, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 1999 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 3, 1956.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Zazas James B, an individual, certificate issued September 9, 1999, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 3, 1956, 16 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 5137 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N30837 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N30837: Accident on August 6, 1991 at Westerly, RI: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"5137","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 1450","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00491333","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N30837","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1940,"zip":"283271450"}