Wick STARDUSTER SA-300
N3976 is a Wick STARDUSTER SA-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Garberville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 15, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wick
- Model
- STARDUSTER SA-300
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A49FF4 (octal 51117764)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 22, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 15, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00190774
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shepp Kenneth J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3489 Goodman Ranch Rd
Garberville, CA 95542-8206
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N3976, 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 Shepp Kenneth J, an individual, certificate issued June 22, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 15, 1980, 4 years after the 1976 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 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3976 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Travel Air Manufacturing Co BIPLANE (serial 325, cancelled March 16, 1934). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N3976. 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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data