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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Aerovodochody L-29 DELFIN
N20PL is an Aerovodochody L-29 DELFIN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to State of Iowa University of Iowa, a government body in Iowa City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated April 8, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen October 29 at 6:12 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerovodochody
- Model
- L-29 DELFIN · all L-29 DELFINs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Aerovodochody L-29 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
- 395097
- 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
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Motorlet M-701(SERIES) · 1,962 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Transponder code
- A190FA (octal 50310372)
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 5, 2010
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 8, 2026
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00254799
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- State of Iowa University of Iowa
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 430 Plaza Centre One
Iowa City, IA 52242
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N20PL links to the rest of the register
- Aerovodochody L-29 67 registered
- Aerovodochody 67 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Motorlet M-701(series 8 aircraft with this engine series · 1,962 lb thrust
- State of Iowa University of Iowa 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Iowa City, IA 102 aircraft registered in this town
- Iowa City Municipal · IOW
- Iowa 4,514 aircraft registered
- Where N20PL is now · Last seen October 29 at 6:12 pm.
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The public federal record on N20PL, 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 State of Iowa University of Iowa, a government body, certificate issued August 5, 2010, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 2026, 53 years after the 1973 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 395097 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N20PL 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 N20PL. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data