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N25880

Piper J3L-65

N25880 is a Piper J3L-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sunnyvale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 14, 1965.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J3L-65
Serial number
3833
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1939
Cruising speed
67 mph
Transponder code
A278BF (octal 50474277)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 7, 2005
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 14, 1965
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00253132

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rother Earle W III
Type
Individual
Address
929 Mesa Oak Ct
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-8200

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data