Heady David L LANCAIR ES
N146CA is a Heady David L LANCAIR ES, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sullivan, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 17, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Heady David L
- Model
- LANCAIR ES
- Serial number
- ES-023
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC SUPER ES
- Transponder code
- A0B92D (octal 50134455)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 17, 2005
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00233957
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heady David S
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 761 Cr 1850N
Sullivan, IL 61951-6581 - Co-owners
- Heady David L
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N146CA, 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 Heady David S, a co-owned, certificate issued September 14, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 17, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial ES-023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N146CA 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]
1 NTSB record under N146CA: Incident on November 21, 1991 at Buffalo, NY: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Saab-Fairchild SF-340A · operated under 135
A FATIGUE FRACTURE ON THE PROPELLER SHAFT, THAT ORIGINATED AT A SUBSURFACE SLAG INCLUSION, WHICH REMAINED IN THE MATERIAL USED TO MANUFACTURE THE SHAFT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data