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N120BA

Icon Aircraft Inc A5

N120BA is an Icon Aircraft Inc A5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to South Coast Marine LLC, an LLC in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated September 14, 2018.

Aircraft

Maker
Icon Aircraft Inc
Model
A5 · all A5s and related versions
Serial number
00052
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A053CC (octal 50051714)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 31, 2024
Expires
January 31, 2031
Last FAA action
January 31, 2024
Airworthiness
Light sport · Airplane · September 14, 2018
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01276945

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
South Coast Marine LLC
Type
LLC
Address
8195 Doug Hl
San Diego, CA 92127-2568

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

2012-04-26Eurocopter France EC120B · exported to Argentina · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N120BA, 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 South Coast Marine LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 31, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 00052 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N120BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eurocopter France EC120B (serial 1121, cancelled April 26, 2012). 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 N120BA: Accident on March 31, 2001 at Decatur, TX: serious 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

FTW01LA091Accident on March 31, 2001 at Decatur, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 115

Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC-3 · operated under 091

the pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the takeoff/initial climb. Contributing factors were the pilot's exceeding aircraft weight and balance limits and the dust devil.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW01LA091 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