{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1977-09-29","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1977-03-10","city":"INDIANAPOLIS","country_code":"US","county_code":"097","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41506","engine_horsepower":140,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-290 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7101815","mode_s_code":"50616216","mode_s_hex":"A31C8E","model":"L-21B","n_number":"N3VU","name":"VINCENNES UNIVERSITY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"VINCENNES","damage":"SUBS","date":"1999-05-10","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI99LA146","probable_cause":"the pilot's failure to maintain directional control after landing.  Factors which contributed to this accident were the pilot's long touchdown, the rough area on the runway, and the wheat field.","registration":"N3VU","state":"IN","summary":"Accident on May 10, 1999 at Vincennes, IN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"AVIATION MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY","plain_english":"N3VU is a Piper L-21B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vincennes University, a government body in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 1977 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 29, 1977.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Vincennes University, a government body, certificate issued March 10, 1977, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 29, 1977, 23 years after the 1954 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 18-3987 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N3VU 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 N3VU: Accident on May 10, 1999 at Vincennes, IN: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":2,"serial_number":"18-3987","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2175 S HOFFMAN RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00760973","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3VU","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1954,"zip":"462413621"}