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N397LC

Flying High Llc AL-18

Assigned, not yet registered

N397LC is a Flying High Llc AL-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as "n-number assigned but not yet registered". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Flying High Llc
Model
AL-18
Serial number
AL-397
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Kit
AMERICAN LEGEND AIRCRAFT CO AL18
Transponder code
A49DC7 (octal 51116707)

Registration

Status
N-number assigned but not yet registered
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
July 9, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01567174

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Withheld at the owner's request
Type
—
Address

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N397LC, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "N-number assigned but not yet registered". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AL-397 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N397LC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N397LC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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