Maule M-5-180C
N56646 is a Maule M-5-180C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Soldotna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-5-180C · all M-5-180Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 8084C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A74037 (octal 51640067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 31, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00880557
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fiebelkorn James W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1342
Soldotna, AK 99669-1342
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N56646, 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 Fiebelkorn James W, an individual, certificate issued March 31, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8084C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56646 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200 (serial 34-7450015, cancelled October 29, 1973). 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 N56646: Accident on July 22, 2001 at Houghton Lake, MI: 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-5-180C · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff run. A factor relating to this accident was the trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01LA224 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
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