Lancair Company LC42-550FG
N2517X is a Lancair Company LC42-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Watkins, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 16, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lancair Company
- Model
- LC42-550FG · all LC42-550FGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 42081
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A25E98 (octal 50457230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · August 16, 2005
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00191269
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Braun Robert M Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15772 County Road 165
Watkins, MN 55389-9607
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.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2517X, 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 Braun Robert M Trustee, an individual, certificate issued January 19, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated August 16, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2517X was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Dorff Charles Lee TEAM MINI-MAX 1100R (serial SN-703, cancelled February 25, 2002); Piper PA-31T2 (serial 31T8166004, cancelled August 23, 1990); Cessna P206 (serial P2060017, cancelled September 13, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N2517X: Accident on February 17, 1982 at Springfield, KY: fatal, destroyed (8 fatal). 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: Piper PA-31T2 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL82FA055 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