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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Downer REPUBLIC RC-3
N87548 is a Downer REPUBLIC RC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Big Rapids, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 27, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 23, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Downer
- Model
- REPUBLIC RC-3 · all REPUBLIC RC-3s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Seabee amphibian. This is how the Downer REPUBLIC RC-3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 108
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Franklin 6A8 SERIES · 215 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 87 mph
- Transponder code
- AC0BEE (octal 53005756)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 27, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · March 23, 1956
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00692171
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cain James W
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 19724 Tanglewood
Big Rapids, MI 49307-9467 - Co-owners
- Cain Michael G / Cain Douglas A / Packer Nancy e / Reoch Susan M
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.
Connections how N87548 links to the rest of the register
- Downer REPUBLIC RC-3 6 registered
- Downer 50 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Franklin 6A8 series 107 aircraft with this engine series · 215 hp
- Big Rapids, MI 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Roben-Hood Airport · RQB
- Michigan 7,221 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N87548.json.
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The public federal record on N87548, 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 Cain James W, a co-owned, certificate issued November 27, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 108 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87548 according to the deregistered file. [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 N87548. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data