Temco GC-1B
N3875K is a Temco GC-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Joliet, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 1987 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 8, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Temco
- Model
- GC-1B · all GC-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3575
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C125 SERIES · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A4785C (octal 51074134)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 1987
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 8, 1955
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00780546
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lemke Brian
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 717 Fairlane Dr
Joliet, IL 60435
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 N3875K, 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 Lemke Brian, an individual, certificate issued January 22, 1987, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 8, 1955, 7 years after the 1948 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 3575 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3875K 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 N3875K: Accident on May 25, 2005 at Morris, IL: 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: Temco GC-1B · operated under 091
Malfunction of the pilot seat positioning mechanism for undetermined reasons resulting in a loss of aircraft control. The runway light struck when the airplane departed the pavement was a contributing factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI05CA134 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