Pilatus P3-05
N868G is a Pilatus P3-05, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Elkhorn, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2011 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 23, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- P3-05 · all P3-05s and related versions
- Serial number
- 506-55
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming GO-435C&D SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1959
- Transponder code
- ABED25 (octal 52766445)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 3, 2011
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · January 23, 2012
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00843974
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merriman Joel A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6528 Pine Ridge Rd
Elkhorn, NE 68022-3007
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N868G, 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 Merriman Joel A, an individual, certificate issued October 3, 2011, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 23, 2012, 53 years after the 1959 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 506-55 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N868G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman G-1159 (serial 28, cancelled February 24, 1971). 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 N868G. 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