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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Flight 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Design Gmbh
- Model
- CTLS · all CTLSs 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. This is how the Flight Design Gmbh CTLS 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
- F-08-06-13
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS3 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A1FB46 (octal 50375506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2018
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 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 · Operating light-sport previously certificatedFAA certificate purpose code 8C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 31, 2019
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01020157
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clear Skies Flying Club LLC (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 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.
Connections how N227CT links to the rest of the register
- Flight Design Gmbh CTLS 142 registered
- Flight Design Gmbh 330 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS3 13 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Clear Skies Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Ankeny, IA 99 aircraft registered in this town
- Ankeny Regional · IKV
- Iowa 4,506 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N227CT.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data