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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Republic
- Model
- RC-3 · all RC-3s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Republic RC-3 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
- 363
- 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 · Franklin 6A8 SERIES · 215 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 87 mph
- Transponder code
- A80BD0 (octal 52005720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 28, 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 · September 26, 1955
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00401426
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Optimus Aircraft Service INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N6175K links to the rest of the register
- Republic RC-3 128 registered
- Republic 146 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Franklin 6A8 series 107 aircraft with this engine series · 215 hp
- Optimus Aircraft Service INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Middletown, DE 347 aircraft registered in this town
- Summit Airport · EVY
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6175K.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data