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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026
N168DM

Murphy Charles P APF-3

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesGeorgia

N168DM is a Murphy Charles P APF-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Martinez, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 1, 2010.

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Aircraft

Maker
Murphy Charles P
Model
APF-3
Serial number
001
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
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-290 · 125 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
2
Year built
2010
Transponder code
A10FBD (octal 50207675)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 3, 2010
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 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 1, 2010
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01049680

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Murphy Charles P
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
355 Candlestick Way
Martinez, GA 30907-3382

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N168DM links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Martinez, GA 22 aircraft registered in this town
  • Georgia 8,807 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N168DM, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Murphy Charles P, an individual, certificate issued March 3, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 1, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N168DM according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N168DM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data