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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Maule M-6-235
N3448Q is a Maule M-6-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sand Hill Ranch LTD, a corporation in Decatur, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2013 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 25, 2013.
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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
- 22030C
- 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 IO-540-W1A5 · 235 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A3CFA9 (octal 50747651)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 23, 2013
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 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 · July 25, 2013
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01128355
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sand Hill Ranch LTD
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 188 County Rd 4226
Decatur, TX 76234
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N3448Q 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 IO-540-W1A5 31 aircraft with this engine series · 235 hp
- Sand Hill Ranch LTD 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Decatur, TX 75 aircraft registered in this town
- Bishop Airport · 76T
- Decatur Municipal · LUD
- Heritage Creek Airstrip Airport · 58T
- Lazy G Bar Ranch Airport · 09T
- 1 more landing places in 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 IO-540-W1A5 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-W1A5 16 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N3448Q, 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 Sand Hill Ranch LTD, a corporation, certificate issued September 23, 2013, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 25, 2013, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22030C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3448Q 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3448Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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