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N9880H

Piper J5C

Valid Illinois

N9880H is a Piper J5C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Elgin, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2006 and expires on October 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J5C
Serial number
51434
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1943
Cruising speed
77 mph
Transponder code
ADCB3C (octal 53345474)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 2, 2006
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00377658

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Abell Alan R
Type
Individual
Address
1610 Highland Ave
Elgin, IL 60123

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