Republic RC-3
N9042N is a Republic RC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Seabee Heaven LLC, an LLC in Lexington, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 25, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 17, 1988. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Republic
- Model
- RC-3 · all RC-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 275
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming GO-480 SERIES · 295 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 87 mph
- Transponder code
- AC80B3 (octal 53100263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 25, 2008
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 17, 1988
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00261331
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Seabee Heaven LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 133 Fiddler Branch Ct
Lexington, SC 29072-7483
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9042N, 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 Seabee Heaven LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 25, 2008, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 17, 1988, 41 years after the 1947 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 275 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9042N according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 9, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N9042N: Accident on April 21, 2018 at Pelion, SC: no 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Republic RC 3 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing in gusting crosswind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA225 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
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