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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Nelsen Douglas K SKY RAIDER
N3678 is a Nelsen Douglas K SKY RAIDER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Little Elm, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 25, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Nelsen Douglas K
- Model
- SKY RAIDER
- Serial number
- 1997-017
- 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
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 447 · 40 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A429BD (octal 51024675)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 25, 2008
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00401379
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelsen Douglas K
- 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
- 2688 Redcedar Dr
Little Elm, TX 75068-6604
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N3678 links to the rest of the register
- Nelsen Douglas K 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 447 135 aircraft with this engine series · 40 hp
- Little Elm, TX 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,960 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N3678.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3678, 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 Nelsen Douglas K, an individual, certificate issued February 14, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1997-017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3678 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 N3678. 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 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data