Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42-550FG
N2539X 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 Why Drive LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 31, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 9, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg
- Model
- LC42-550FG · all LC42-550FGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 42505
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-N · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A2664C (octal 50463114)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 31, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · November 9, 2006
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00218379
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Why Drive LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1742 Sunset Blvd Unit 602
Houston, TX 77005-1736
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2539X, 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 Why Drive LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 31, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated November 9, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42505 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2539X was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288516089, cancelled December 16, 1988); Cessna P206 (serial P206-0039, cancelled January 26, 1965). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2539X. 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 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