{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1956-03-17","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1998-06-29","city":"SANFORD","country_code":"US","county_code":"117","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":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-17","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7100510","mode_s_code":"53346113","mode_s_hex":"ADCC4B","model":"J3C-65","n_number":"N98879","name":"WRIGHT CECIL A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"LEESBURG","damage":"SUBS","date":"1997-07-20","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ATL97LA107","probable_cause":"the pilot's inadvertent entry into a secondary stall and spin, as engine power faltered during application of power, while recovering from an intentional stall.  The hesitation (faltering) of power and the pilot's diverted attention were related factors.","registration":"N98879","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on July 20, 1997 at Leesburg, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"WRIGHT DUANE C","plain_english":"N98879 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 Sanford, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 1998 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 17, 1956.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wright Cecil A, a co-owned, certificate issued June 29, 1998, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 17, 1956, 10 years after the 1946 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 19660 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N98879 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 N98879: Accident on July 20, 1997 at Leesburg, FL: minor 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"19660","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"420 LAKE BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00243570","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N98879","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1946,"zip":"327734758"}