Flight Design Gmbh CTLS
N227CT is a Flight Design Gmbh CTLS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Clear Skies Flying Club LLC, an LLC in Ankeny, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2018 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated January 31, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Design Gmbh
- Model
- CTLS · all CTLSs and related versions
- Serial number
- F-08-06-13
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS3 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A1FB46 (octal 50375506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2018
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport previously certificated · January 31, 2019
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01020157
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clear Skies Flying Club LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O John Koester
3497 NE 78Th Ave
Ankeny, IA 50021-9377
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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 N227CT, 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 Clear Skies Flying Club LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 6, 2018, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 31, 2019, 11 years after the 2008 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 F-08-06-13 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N227CT 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 N227CT: Accident on August 10, 2011 at Ankeny, IA: no 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: Flight Design GMBH CTLS · operated under 091
The pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11CA567 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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