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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Universal GLOBE GC-1B
N3898K is an Universal GLOBE GC-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Chino Hills, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 28, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Universal
- Model
- GLOBE GC-1B · all GLOBE GC-1Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Swift. This is how the Universal GLOBE GC-1B 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
- 3598
- 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 · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A48033 (octal 51100063)
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 27, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 27, 2024
- 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 · August 28, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00500554
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stubblefield Daniel R
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3051 Champion St
Chino Hills, CA 91709-5198 - Co-owners
- Obrien Michael J
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.
Connections how N3898K links to the rest of the register
- Universal GLOBE GC-1B 45 registered
- Universal 61 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C145 series 1,828 aircraft with this engine series · 145 hp
- Chino Hills, CA 49 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental C145 series 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C145 series 8 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N3898K, 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 Stubblefield Daniel R, a co-owned, certificate issued February 27, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 28, 1973, 25 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 3598 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3898K 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 N3898K. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data