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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Flight Design Gmbh CTLS
N138M is a Flight Design Gmbh CTLS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Alhambra, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 26, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated June 30, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Design Gmbh
- Model
- CTLS · all CTLSs 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 Flight Design Gmbh CTLS 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
- F-13-06-05
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912IS2 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A099FC (octal 50114774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 26, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 30, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01120546
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Choo Kevin
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 210 e Bay State St Apt B
Alhambra, CA 91801-7316
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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 2
Connections how N138M links to the rest of the register
- Flight Design Gmbh CTLS 142 registered
- Flight Design Gmbh 330 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912IS2 123 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Alhambra, CA 10 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, stiff · 2002-04-16
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, overheated · 2002-03-19
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The public federal record on N138M, 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 Choo Kevin, an individual, certificate issued November 26, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated June 30, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F-13-06-05 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N138M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Stanley Gary TITAN TORNADO (serial D94582COHK0099, cancelled March 26, 2010); Moth 60-GM (serial 98, cancelled February 17, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N138M. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data