Lancair Company LC-40-550FG
N37BA is a Lancair Company LC-40-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 17, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lancair Company
- Model
- LC-40-550FG · all LC-40-550FGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 40020
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A4318C (octal 51030614)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 2007
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · August 17, 2001
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00263964
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ambler Robert L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2769 Nipoma St
San Diego, CA 92106-1111
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N37BA, 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 Ambler Robert L, an individual, certificate issued March 29, 2007, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated August 17, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N37BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Southwest Florida Aviation SW204HP (serial 1104, cancelled September 28, 2004). 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 N37BA: Accident on May 24, 2000 at Fort Pierce, FL: 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: Southwest Florida Aviation SW204 · operated under 137
An in-flight separation of a tail rotor blade tip weight resulting in tail rotor assembly imbalance and separation due to the installation of an unapproved rotor blade by company maintenance personnel, and the subsequent collision with trees during an emergency landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA00LA170 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