Clark George D PRECEPTOR STOL KING
N678DC is a Clark George D PRECEPTOR STOL KING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Winthrop, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 9, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 19, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Clark George D
- Model
- PRECEPTOR STOL KING
- Serial number
- DC-4
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-235-C · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A8F9BE (octal 52174676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 9, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 19, 2022
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01102348
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Taylor Ronald W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 136 High St
Winthrop, ME 04364-1346
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N678DC, 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 Taylor Ronald W, an individual, certificate issued March 9, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 19, 2022, 9 years after the 2013 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 DC-4 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N678DC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH-1517, cancelled June 4, 2007). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N678DC: Accident on January 2, 2007 at Washington, IN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Beech 58 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from trees and terrain while attempting to return to the departure airport for undetermined reasons after takeoff. The intervening tree line was a contributing factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI07FA052 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