Republic RC-3
N87583 is a Republic RC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 1978 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 15, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Republic
- Model
- RC-3 · all RC-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 151
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming GSO&IGSO-480 · 340 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 87 mph
- Transponder code
- AC0C75 (octal 53006165)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 1978
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 15, 1992
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00172141
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Floten William F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8668 Island Dr So
Seattle, WA 98118
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.
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The public federal record on N87583, 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 Floten William F, an individual, certificate issued July 10, 1978, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 15, 1992, 46 years after the 1946 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 151 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87583 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]
2 NTSB records under N87583: Accident on June 5, 2024 at Butte, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 4, 1987 at Clearlake, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Republic RC-3 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during the takeoff with a gusty left quartering crosswind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA180 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Republic RC-3 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX88LA004 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data