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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Maule M-6-235
N5652C is a Maule M-6-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 1, 1982.
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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
- 7403C
- 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 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A73C1E (octal 51636036)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 14, 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 · March 1, 1982
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00830326
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- 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
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
Connections how N5652C links to the rest of the register
- Maule M-6 81 registered
- Maule 1,345 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 O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- 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 O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N5652C.json.
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The public federal record on N5652C, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued January 14, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 1, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7403C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5652C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140A (serial 15606, cancelled November 15, 1972). 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]
1 NTSB record under N5652C: Accident on March 8, 1996 at Bishop, CA: 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: Maule M-6-235 · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. The unfavorable wind condition was a related factor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data