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Piper J3C-65 · 1943 · Madison, SD
N50834 is a 1943 Piper J3C-65 (serial 10278), registered to Riggin Flight Service Inc (corporation) in Madison, SD. Its FAA registration is recorded as v and expires August 2027; the airworthiness certificate dates from March 1957 (69 years ago). It carries a Cont Motor C85 SERIES engine rated at 85 hp, the engine on 15% of registered Piper J3C-65s. Its Mode-S transponder broadcasts the ICAO 24-bit address A65A86. It is one of 3,200 Piper J3C-65 aircraft on the FAA registry. Riggin Flight Service Inc holds 39 aircraft on the registry.
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452 of the 3,007 registered Piper J3C-65 carry this engine (15%), across 41 engine variants on the type.
Source: FAA engine reference (ENGINE.txt), matched on this registration's engine code.
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