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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42-550FG
N248AP is a Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 25, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 8, 2006.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 6:05 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg
- Model
- LC42-550FG · all LC42-550FGs 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. This is how the Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42 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
- 42541
- 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-N · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A24DC5 (octal 50446705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 25, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 25, 2024
- 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 · November 8, 2006
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00269279
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N248AP links to the rest of the register
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42 61 registered
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg 269 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-550-N 2,786 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Approved modifications for the Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42 3 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-550-N 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-550-N 335 reports since 1995
- Where N248AP is now · Last seen October 16 at 6:05 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N248AP.json.
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The public federal record on N248AP, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued November 25, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated November 8, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42541 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N248AP 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 N248AP. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data