Porterfield CP-55
N32340 is a Porterfield CP-55, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Light Aircraft Services Lc, an LLC in Joplin, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 16, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Porterfield
- Model
- CP-55
- Serial number
- 798
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 76 mph
- Transponder code
- A37C72 (octal 50676162)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 11, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 16, 1986
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00111853
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Light Aircraft Services Lc
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1709 Osage Orange Rd
Joplin, MO 64801-8773
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N32340, 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 Light Aircraft Services Lc, an LLC, certificate issued October 11, 2007, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 798 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N32340 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]
1 NTSB record under N32340: Accident on May 11, 1989 at Tecumseh, MI: 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: Porterfield CP-55 · operated under 091
PILOT'S INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT OPERATINS, WHICH FAILED TO DETECT THE PRESENCE OF WATER CONTAMINATION IN THE FUEL SYSTEM, AND RESULTED IN THE SUBSTANTIAL LOSS OF POWER AND SUBSEQUENT FORCED LANDING. THE AIRCRAFT ENCOUNTERED SOFT, LOOSE SOIL DURING THE FORCED LANDING AND FLIPPED OVER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89LA086 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data