N770V1939 Piper J4A
Safety record in brief:No NTSB accidents or incidents since 1982No ADs since 1998 matched1 service difficulty report
Registration
FAA Aircraft Registry · Oct 16, 2026- Registered owner
- Co-owners
- City, state
- El Dorado, AR
- Certificate issued
- Dec 30, 2014
- Expires
- Dec 31, 2027
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- Airworthiness date
- Mar 15, 1957
We never show street addresses, even though they appear in the public FAA file. Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Airframe & engine
FAA Registry + type dataAirframe
- Manufacturer
- Piper
- Model
- J4A
- Year
- 1939
- Serial number
- 4-730
- Aircraft type
- Fixed wing single engine
- Category
- Land
- Certification
- Type Certificated
- Seats
- 2
- Engines
- 1
- Max takeoff weight
- Up to 12,499 lb
- Mode S code
- AA6AE2
Engine
- Make and model
- Cont Motor A&C65 Series
- Type
- Reciprocating
- Power
- 65 hp
Total time and engine hours aren't public. They appear here once the owner adds logbooks.
Ownership history
Ownership history from FAA records- 2014 – nowCo-ownersEl Dorado, AR · current
Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Safety record
NTSB · Oct 15, 2026 · FAA ADs · Oct 16, 2026 · SDRs · Oct 16, 2026NTSB events (0)
No NTSB accidents or incidents found for this airframe since 1982.
Accident history for this modelADs published since 1998 that may apply (0)
These match the airframe or engine model. Whether each one applies, and whether it's been complied with, depends on serial numbers, equipment and logbook entries. Applicability must be confirmed by a mechanic against the aircraft's records.
No ADs published since 1998 matched this airframe or engine model.
AI-extracted — verify against original. Matched from each AD's applicability section; ADs replaced by a later AD are left out.
Service Difficulty Reports (1)
Reports of failures and defects that operators and repair stations sent to the FAA since 1995. A report describes one finding; it is not an accident.
- Landing gear · wheel · crackedNov 6, 2006
CREW REPORTED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS MAIN LANDING GEAR TIRE AS APPEARING LOW. AFTER 2 PREVIOUS SAME MAKE, MODEL, AND PN WHEELS BEING FOUND CRACKED, INSPECTED WHEEL HALVES AND FOUND ONE CRACK RADIATING FROM BOLT HOLE TO BEAD SEAT AREA. REPEAT THIRD OCCASION OF SAME DEFECT IN LAST 3 MONTHS.
From FAA Service Difficulty Reports; matched by N-number and serial number.
Sources
- FAA Aircraft RegistryRegistration, owner city and state, airframe, engineupdated Oct 16, 2026
- NTSB accident and incident databaseAccidents and incidents since 1982updated Oct 15, 2026
- FAA Airworthiness Directives (Federal Register)ADs published since 1998updated Oct 16, 2026
- FAA Service Difficulty ReportsReports since 1995updated Oct 16, 2026