Great Lakes 2T-1A-2
N101GL is a Great Lakes 2T-1A-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Associated Aircraft LLC, an LLC in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated July 24, 1975.
Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 1:22 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Great Lakes
- Model
- 2T-1A-2 · all 2T-1A-2s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. This is how the Great Lakes 2 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
- 0714
- 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 · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A0090C (octal 50004414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 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 · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 24, 1975
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00720130
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Associated Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7771 Golfcrest Dr
San Diego, CA 92119-1258
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 N101GL links to the rest of the register
- Great Lakes 2 168 registered
- Great Lakes 168 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,561 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Associated Aircraft LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- San Diego, CA 683 aircraft registered in this town
- Brown Field Municipal · SDM
- Montgomery-Gibbs Executive · MYF
- San Diego International · SAN
- California 27,642 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Great Lakes 2 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Great Lakes 2 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Great Lakes 2 63 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
- Where N101GL is now · Last seen October 14 at 1:22 pm.
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The public federal record on N101GL, 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 Associated Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 8, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0714 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N101GL 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]
1 NTSB record under N101GL: Accident on March 15, 2019 at San Diego, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Great Lakes 2T-1A-2 · operated under 091
The fracture of the aileron hinge strap due to fatigue crack propagation, which resulted in substantial damage to a wing rib aft of the spar at the outboard aileron cutout. Contributing to the accident was inadequate maintenance inspection.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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