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N3073B

Barche Melvin E BABY ACE

Valid Tennessee

N3073B is a Barche Melvin E BABY ACE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Maryville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 28, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Barche Melvin E
Model
BABY ACE
Serial number
100
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A33C16 (octal 50636026)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 16, 2023
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 28, 2007
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00156319

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Spitler Scott M
Type
Individual
Address
1119 S Clark St
Maryville, TN 37803-6031

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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

2002-05-31Piper PA-44-180 · exported to Canada · Valid registration
1956-10-03Cessna 195A · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N3073B, 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 Spitler Scott M, an individual, certificate issued January 16, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 100 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3073B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-44-180 (serial 44-7995114, cancelled May 31, 2002); Cessna 195A (serial 7957, cancelled October 3, 1956). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3073B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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