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Piper J3L-65 · 1941 · Kannapolis, NC
N40658 is a 1941 Piper J3L-65 (serial 7417), registered to Goodnight James J (individual) in Kannapolis, NC. Its FAA registration is recorded as v and expires January 2028; the airworthiness certificate dates from November 1955 (70 years ago). It carries a Lycoming 0-145B SERIES engine rated at 65 hp, the engine on 56% of registered Piper J3L-65s. Its Mode-S transponder broadcasts the ICAO 24-bit address A4C613. It is one of 179 Piper J3L-65 aircraft on the FAA registry. Goodnight James J holds 2 aircraft on the registry.
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96 of the 172 registered Piper J3L-65 carry this engine (56%), across 18 engine variants on the type.
Source: FAA engine reference (ENGINE.txt), matched on this registration's engine code.
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