{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2006-12-20","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"CHURCHVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-15"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55562","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"582DCDI","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-28","maker":"Rans","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RANS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05901DF","mode_s_code":"50707430","mode_s_hex":"A38F18","model":"S-12XL","n_number":"N3285J","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3285J is a Rans S-12XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Churchville, Maryland. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 20, 2006. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 08950649 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3285J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150G (serial 15065985, cancelled July 14, 1971). 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":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N3285J. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"08950649","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MD","status":"Sale reported","status_code":"7","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"3538 ALDINO RD STE 13","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00271489","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3285J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"210281922"}