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N6569K

Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164C

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N6569K is a Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Jones Aviation, a corporation in Biggs, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2012 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated February 2, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer
Model
G-164C · all G-164Cs and related versions
Serial number
5C
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1978
Cruising speed
80 mph
Transponder code
A8A6A1 (octal 52123241)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
May 10, 2012
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 2, 1978
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00222746

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jones Aviation
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
PO Box 497
Biggs, CA 95917-0497

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 2

2015-04-29Republic RC-3 · Valid registration
1967-11-24Republic RC-3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6569K, 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 Jones Aviation, a corporation, certificate issued May 10, 2012, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated February 2, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6569K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Republic RC-3 (serial 842, cancelled April 29, 2015); Republic RC-3 (serial 954, cancelled November 24, 1967). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N6569K: Accident on February 3, 1989 at Bayless, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

LAX89DVG04Accident on February 3, 1989 at Bayless, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schweizer G-164C · operated under 137

THE DEPARATION OF A TURBINE BLADE FOLLOWED BY A FORCED LANDING DURING WHICH THE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED DUE TO OVERLOAD FORCES.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 September 30, 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