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N1240C

Carson Lyle C COMMANDER

Valid Idaho

N1240C is a Carson Lyle C COMMANDER, a gyroplane with a two-stroke engine, built in 2011. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Pocatello, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2010 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 29, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
Carson Lyle C
Model
COMMANDER
Serial number
LCC01
Type
Gyroplane
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 583 · 92 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2011
Transponder code
A064E9 (octal 50062351)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 28, 2010
Expires
February 28, 2027
Last FAA action
June 26, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 29, 2012
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01052542

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Carson Lyle C
Type
Individual
Address
527 W Benton St
Pocatello, ID 83204-3348

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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 3

2008-01-09Cessna 172R · exported to India · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
2003-11-03Jabat Donald C NIEUPORT-17 · Valid registration
1997-08-28Piper PA-22-135 · exported to Canada · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1240C, 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 Carson Lyle C, an individual, certificate issued April 28, 2010, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 29, 2012, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LCC01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1240C was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17281476, cancelled January 9, 2008); Jabat Donald C NIEUPORT-17 (serial 115, cancelled November 3, 2003); Piper PA-22-135 (serial 221044, cancelled August 28, 1997). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1240C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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