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N6856C

Randall L Apling CARBON CONCEPT CUB

Valid Alaska

N6856C is a Randall L Apling CARBON CONCEPT CUB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 20, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Randall L Apling
Model
CARBON CONCEPT CUB
Serial number
3C001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
3
Year built
2019
Transponder code
A918F7 (octal 52214367)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 5, 2019
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 20, 2019
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
01285169

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Apling Randall L
Type
Individual
Address
3360 N Travelair Dr
Wasilla, AK 99654-4314

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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

1998-11-09Lockheed PV-2 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6856C, 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 Apling Randall L, an individual, certificate issued March 5, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 20, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3C001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6856C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed PV-2 (serial 151156, cancelled November 9, 1998). 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 N6856C: Accident on April 20, 1997 at Blandburg, PA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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

IAD97FA065Accident on April 20, 1997 at Blandburg, PA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 15-1156

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lockheed PV2 · operated under 137

Pilot in command misjudged his maneuvering altitude. Factors to this accident were the mountainous terrain, windy conditions, turbulence in the area, and smoke.

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