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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41-550FG
N1537R is a Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to B & R Aero LLC, an LLC in Keene, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 16, 2007.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 10:47 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg
- Model
- LC41-550FG · all LC41-550FGs 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. Now the Cessna TTx. This is how the Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41 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
- 41778
- 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 TSIO-550-C · 310 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0D8B1 (octal 50154261)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 17, 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 · August 16, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00374739
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- B & R Aero 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
- 28357 Silverberry Ct
Keene, CA 93531-1325
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 2
Connections how N1537R links to the rest of the register
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41 207 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 TSIO-550-C 479 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- B & R Aero LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Keene, CA 3 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,286 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41 3 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-550-C 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-550-C 81 reports since 1995
- Where N1537R is now · Last seen Tuesday at 10:47 am.
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The public federal record on N1537R, 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 B & R Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 17, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41778 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1537R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-401 (serial 401-0858, cancelled October 1, 2003); Beech F33A (serial CE1303, cancelled February 6, 1990). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1537R: Accident on January 14, 2003 at Alamo, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor AT-401 · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed which resulted in a stall. Low altitude flight is a contributing factor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data