{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1988-03-17","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-11-25","city":"LEXINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":87,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-09"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41527","engine_horsepower":295,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"GO-480 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Republic","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"REPUBLIC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3080202","mode_s_code":"53100263","mode_s_hex":"AC80B3","model":"RC-3","n_number":"N9042N","name":"SEABEE HEAVEN LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Pelion","damage":"SUBS","date":"2018-04-21","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"GAA18CA225","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain directional control during landing in gusting crosswind conditions.","registration":"N9042N","state":"SC","summary":"Accident on April 21, 2018 at Pelion, SC: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Seabee Heaven LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 25, 2008, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 275 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9042N according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 9, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N9042N: Accident on April 21, 2018 at Pelion, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"275","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"133 FIDDLER BRANCH CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00261331","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9042N","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1947,"zip":"290727483"}