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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026American Legend Aircraft Co AL3
N313BC is an American Legend Aircraft Co AL3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Tumwater, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated September 18, 2009.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 5:44 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Legend Aircraft Co
- Model
- AL3 · all AL3s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. A new-production Cub: steel tube and fabric. This is how the American Legend Aircraft Co AL3 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
- AL-1149
- 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 · Cont Motor O-200 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A35212 (octal 50651022)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 18, 2009
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01036661
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Meter Benjamin
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2008 Arab Dr SE
Tumwater, WA 98501-6843 - Co-owners
- Van Meter Felicity
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 1
Connections how N313BC links to the rest of the register
- American Legend Aircraft Co AL3 121 registered
- American Legend Aircraft Co 231 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-200 329 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Tumwater, WA 23 aircraft registered in this town
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Continental O-200 67 reports since 1995
- Where N313BC is now · Last seen October 17 at 5:44 pm.
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The public federal record on N313BC, 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 Van Meter Benjamin, a co-owned, certificate issued October 8, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated September 18, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AL-1149 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N313BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA 46-350P (serial 4636075, cancelled June 20, 2006). 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 N313BC. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data