{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1946-03-05","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-06-19","city":"WEST BEND","country_code":"US","county_code":"131","cruise_speed_mph":67,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-19","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7100510","mode_s_code":"52613375","mode_s_hex":"AB16FD","model":"J3C-65","n_number":"N8131A","name":"KETTER KEVIN T","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"KETTER JAMES E","plain_english":"N8131A is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in West Bend, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 5, 1946.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ketter Kevin T, a co-owned, certificate issued June 19, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated March 5, 1946, consistent with the 1946 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16023 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8131A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-220T (serial 348233092, cancelled September 12, 1982); Cessna 170B (serial 20983, cancelled October 24, 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N8131A. 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":"16023","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"191 HERON DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00344581","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8131A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1946,"zip":"530957838"}