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N103L

Ferrin Lonnie D AEROSPONT SS-103

Valid Texas

N103L is a Ferrin Lonnie D AEROSPONT SS-103, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2001 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Ferrin Lonnie D
Model
AEROSPONT SS-103
Serial number
A-AWI-012300-86-R503
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
1
Year built
2001
Kit
AERO-WORKS INC AERO-SPORT SS-103
Transponder code
A010D3 (octal 50010323)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 2, 2001
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 20, 2001
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00503844

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ferrin Lonnie D
Type
Individual
Address
257 Litchfield Ln
Houston, TX 77024-6037

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1983-02-16Smith Miniplane DSA-1 · Administratively canceled

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N103L, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Ferrin Lonnie D, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2001, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A-AWI-012300-86-R503 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N103L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Smith Miniplane DSA-1 (serial 1010-L, cancelled February 16, 1983). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N103L: Accident on April 18, 1982 at Chicago Park, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX82FVG20Accident on April 18, 1982 at Chicago Park, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 10101

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Smith MINIPLANE DSA-1 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data