Corben Baby Ace D
N111B is a Corben Baby Ace D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Gehrlein Rodney L, a partnership in Waterford, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 23, 1992 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 1969.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Corben Baby Ace
- Model
- D · all Ds and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A homebuilt: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric. This is how the Corben Baby Ace D family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- B-1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A03003 (octal 50030003)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 23, 1992
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 22, 1969
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00371030
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gehrlein Rodney L
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 9001 Hamot Rd
Waterford, PA 16441-2715 - Co-owners
- Gehrlein Jay L
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.
Connections how N111B links to the rest of the register
- Corben Baby Ace D 11 registered
- Corben Baby Ace 24 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C85 series 4,672 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Gehrlein Rodney L 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Waterford, PA 21 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental C85 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C85 series 12 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Rotor, fractured · 2019-01-07
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The public federal record on N111B, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Gehrlein Rodney L, a partnership, certificate issued June 23, 1992, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 22, 1969, 8 years after the 1961 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial B-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N111B according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N111B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data