Republic RC-3
N6175K 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 Optimus Aircraft Service INC, a corporation in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 26, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Republic
- Model
- RC-3 · all RC-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 363
- 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
- A80BD0 (octal 52005720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 26, 1955
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00401426
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Optimus Aircraft Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1232 Choptank Rd
Middletown, DE 19709-9038
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.
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The public federal record on N6175K, 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 Optimus Aircraft Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 28, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 26, 1955, 8 years after the 1947 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 363 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6175K 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]
1 NTSB record under N6175K: Accident on October 12, 2000 at Baraboo, WI: 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: Republic RC-3 · operated under 091
the failure of the number five intake valve spring during initial climbout and that there was no suitable terrain during the forced landing. A factor was the corn crop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01LA013 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