Fredricksen Mark C KOLB MARK 3
N72165 is a Fredricksen Mark C KOLB MARK 3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Buhl, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 4, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fredricksen Mark C
- Model
- KOLB MARK 3
- Serial number
- M3-278
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A9AA8B (octal 52325213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 4, 1997
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00286501
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carey George R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 48
Buhl, ID 83316-0048
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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 3
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The public federal record on N72165, 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 Carey George R, an individual, certificate issued July 15, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 4, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M3-278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72165 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Reims CESSNA FRA 150M (serial FRA150-0304, cancelled February 16, 1982); Cessna U206D (serial U206-1305, cancelled August 18, 1969); Cessna 120 (serial 9334, cancelled November 16, 1951). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N72165. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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