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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Lancair Company LC-40-550FG
N171TB is a Lancair Company LC-40-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Maritime Aviation Security Team, a corporation in Wilmington, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated March 21, 2002.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lancair Company
- Model
- LC-40-550FG · all LC-40-550FGs 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 Lancair Company LC-40 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
- 40045
- 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 IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A11E8F (octal 50217217)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- 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 · March 21, 2002
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00493917
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maritime Aviation Security Team
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 518 Pilots Ridge Rd
Wilmington, NC 28412-2958
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N171TB links to the rest of the register
- Lancair Company LC-40 64 registered
- Lancair Company 261 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-550 series 3,077 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Maritime Aviation Security Team 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, NC 162 aircraft registered in this town
- Wilmington International · ILM
- North Carolina 7,126 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lancair Company LC-40 11 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Lancair Company LC-40 11 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Lancair Company LC-40 104 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-550 series 239 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N171TB, 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 Maritime Aviation Security Team, a corporation, certificate issued June 30, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated March 21, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N171TB 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N171TB. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data