Blumenstetter Vaughn A S-6ES COYOTE II
N3278C is a Blumenstetter Vaughn A S-6ES COYOTE II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Elkland, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 1995 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 22, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Blumenstetter Vaughn A
- Model
- S-6ES COYOTE II
- Serial number
- 1292405
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A38BC4 (octal 50705704)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 29, 1995
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 22, 1995
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00875292
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blumenstetter Vaughn A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 551 Countryside Ln
Elkland, MO 65644-8041
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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 1
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The public federal record on N3278C, 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 Blumenstetter Vaughn A, an individual, certificate issued August 29, 1995, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 22, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1292405 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3278C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Craven R Dean QUICKIE 2 (serial 2709, cancelled July 21, 1989). 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 N3278C: Accident on March 8, 1989 at Watkins, CO: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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: Craven'S Quickie Q2 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF BOTH PILOT'S TO MAINTAIN VISUAL LOOKOUT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN89FA083 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data