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N6072K

Republic RC-3

Valid Texas

N6072K is a Republic RC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fresno, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

Aircraft

Maker
Republic
Model
RC-3 · all RC-3s and related versions
Serial number
252
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6A8 SERIES · 215 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1947
Cruising speed
87 mph
Transponder code
A7E3E8 (octal 51761750)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 13, 2019
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00091066

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Weiss Elliott
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 349
Fresno, TX 77545-0349

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6072K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Weiss Elliott, an individual, certificate issued August 13, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 252 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6072K according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N6072K: Accident on September 15, 2012 at Cedar Bluff, AL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ERA12LA562Accident on September 15, 2012 at Cedar Bluff, AL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Republic RC-3 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to see and avoid power lines during final approach to landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12LA562 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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