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N2072C

Klebs Earl N HEAD WIND

Valid Kansas

N2072C is a Klebs Earl N HEAD WIND, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Independence, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 2000 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 7, 1994.

Aircraft

Maker
Klebs Earl N
Model
HEAD WIND
Serial number
EMK5
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1994
Transponder code
A1AEA5 (octal 50327245)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 20, 2000
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 7, 1994
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00774562

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mattix Aaron L
Type
Individual
Address
5126 Highway 160
Independence, KS 67301-7555

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 2

1991-04-16Bell 206B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1979-05-17Beech E-55 · exported to Australia · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2072C, 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 Mattix Aaron L, an individual, certificate issued January 20, 2000, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 7, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial EMK5 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2072C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 3422, cancelled April 16, 1991); Beech E-55 (serial TE1156, cancelled May 17, 1979). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2072C: Accident on March 9, 1991 at Honolulu, HI: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX91LA127Accident on March 9, 1991 at Honolulu, HI: no injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 3422

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206B · operated under 135

INACCURATE FUEL CONSUMPTION CALCULATION BY THE PILOT. A FACTOR WAS THE PARTIAL DEFLATION OF THE EMERGENCY FLOTATION EQUIPMENT.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA127 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data