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N1097L

Cessna Aircraft Co LC42-550FG

Valid Nevada

N1097L is a Cessna Aircraft Co LC42-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 4 seats. It is registered to International Air Services INC Owner Trustee, a corporation in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 23, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 17, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna Aircraft Co
Model
LC42-550FG · all LC42-550FGs and related versions
Serial number
421006
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-N · 310 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2008
Transponder code
A0297B (octal 50024573)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 23, 2025
Expires
June 30, 2032
Last FAA action
June 23, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · April 17, 2008
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01001868

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
International Air Services INC Owner Trustee
Type
Corporation
Address
123 W Nye Ln Ste 129
Carson City, NV 89706-0838

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1976-04-09Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4 · Sale reported

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1097L, 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 International Air Services INC Owner Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued June 23, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated April 17, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421006 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1097L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4 (serial 690, cancelled April 9, 1976). 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 N1097L: Accident on August 11, 2023 at Barcelona: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

GAA23WA236Accident on August 11, 2023 at Barcelona: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna Aircraft CO 350 · operated under NUSN

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA23WA236 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 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