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N6511K

Republic RC-3

N6511K 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 Gateway Air Center INC, a corporation in Merced, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 8, 1985.

Aircraft

Maker
Republic
Model
RC-3 · all RC-3s and related versions
Serial number
777
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming GO-480 SERIES · 295 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1947
Cruising speed
87 mph
Transponder code
A892F6 (octal 52111366)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 12, 2009
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 8, 1985
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00602546

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gateway Air Center INC
Type
Corporation
Address
44 Macready Dr
Merced, CA 95341-6405

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 · 4 clear

The public federal record on N6511K, 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 Gateway Air Center INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 12, 2009, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 1985, 38 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 777 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6511K 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N6511K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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