Mcdonald Lynn B AVID FLYER MARK IV
N30456 is a Mcdonald Lynn B AVID FLYER MARK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Weir, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built; operating kit-built aircraft, dated September 17, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonald Lynn B
- Model
- AVID FLYER MARK IV
- Serial number
- 1279D
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A33154 (octal 50630524)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 7, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 7, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built; Operating kit-built aircraft · September 17, 2025
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00494782
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Neans Ken Lee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 88
Weir, TX 78674-0088
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N30456, 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 Neans Ken Lee, an individual, certificate issued November 7, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 17, 2025, 31 years after the 1994 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 1279D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30456 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J5A (serial 5189, cancelled date not given). 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 N30456: Accident on July 31, 2011 at Yamhill, OR: 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: Mcdonald Lynn B AVID FLYER MARK IV · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of directional control during landing rollout due to an unlocked tail wheel that was caused by a degradation of the tailwheel assembly mounting angle.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11CA358 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