Flight Design Gmbh CTLS
N173LM is a Flight Design Gmbh CTLS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Copper City Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Bisbee, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 2011 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated January 29, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Design Gmbh
- Model
- CTLS · all CTLSs and related versions
- Serial number
- F-09-08-06
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A12558 (octal 50222530)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 8, 2011
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · January 29, 2010
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01045122
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Copper City Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 212 E Vista St
Bisbee, AZ 85603-1813
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N173LM, 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 Copper City Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 8, 2011, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated January 29, 2010, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F-09-08-06 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N173LM 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 N173LM. 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 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
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