Universal GLOBE GC-1B
N3388K is an Universal GLOBE GC-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sierra Madre, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 22, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Universal
- Model
- GLOBE GC-1B · all GLOBE GC-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1381
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A3B701 (octal 50733401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 22, 1965
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00962353
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martens John J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 518 Michillinda Way
Sierra Madre, CA 91024-1066 - Co-owners
- Martens Brian D
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.
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The public federal record on N3388K, 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 Martens John J, a co-owned, certificate issued September 20, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 22, 1965, 19 years after the 1946 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 1381 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3388K according to the deregistered file. [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 N3388K: Accident on December 27, 1988 at Chino, CA: serious 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: Univair GLOBE GC-1B · operated under 091
**This report was modified on 2/24/2016. Please refer to the public docket for this accident for additional information.** The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed during an emergency landing following an inflight loss of engine power, resulting in an aerodynamic stall and loss of control and collision with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89LA071 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