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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Maule M-6-235
N3179U is a Maule M-6-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lott, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2008 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 5, 2019.
Where is it now Last seen today at 12:39 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-6-235 · all M-6-235s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Welded steel-tube fuselage under fabric; metal wing structure. This is how the Maule M-6 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
- 20028C
- 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 · Lycoming O-540-B4B5 · 235 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A36478 (octal 50662170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2008
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 5, 2019
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00995422
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lawson John A
- 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
- PO Box 263
Lott, TX 76656-0263
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N3179U links to the rest of the register
- Maule M-6 81 registered
- Maule 1,346 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-540-B4B5 40 aircraft with this engine series · 235 hp
- Lott, TX 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,985 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Maule M-6 11 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Maule M-6 4 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Maule M-6 201 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540-B4B5 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540-B4B5 17 reports since 1995
- Where N3179U is now · Last seen today at 12:39 pm.
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The public federal record on N3179U, 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 Lawson John A, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2008, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 5, 2019, 24 years after the 1995 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 20028C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3179U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 1900C (serial UC8, cancelled May 19, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N3179U: Accident on March 13, 2004 at Plains, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Maule MX-7-180A · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudgment of the speed/distance/altitude which resulted in a overrun of the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 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 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data