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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42-550FG
N117FP is a Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cross Timbers Holdings LLC, an LLC in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 19, 2007.
Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 11:31 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg
- Model
- LC42-550FG · all LC42-550FGs and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. This is how the Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42 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
- 42553
- 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 · Cont Motor IO-550-N · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A046BF (octal 50043277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 2025
- 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 19, 2007
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00299969
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cross Timbers Holdings 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
- 838 Walker Rd Ste 21-2
Dover, DE 19904-2751
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 N117FP links to the rest of the register
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42 61 registered
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg 269 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-550-N 2,783 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Cross Timbers Holdings LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Dover, DE 1,038 aircraft registered in this town
- Dover Air Force Base · DOV
- Chandelle Airport · 0N4
- Deldot Helistop · 0N5
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42 3 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-550-N 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-550-N 335 reports since 1995
- Where N117FP is now · Last seen October 18 at 11:31 am.
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The public federal record on N117FP, 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 Cross Timbers Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 1, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated April 19, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42553 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N117FP 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N117FP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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