Thomas James E LANCAIR LEGACY
N40DS is a Thomas James E LANCAIR LEGACY, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Calhoun Air Center LLC, an LLC in Washington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 17, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thomas James E
- Model
- LANCAIR LEGACY
- Serial number
- 166
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC LANCAIR LEGACY 2000
- Transponder code
- A4AAA4 (octal 51125244)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 27, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 17, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00424349
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Calhoun Air Center LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 14355 Highway 105
Washington, TX 77880-6699
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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 2
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The public federal record on N40DS, 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 Calhoun Air Center LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 27, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 17, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40DS was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Shumard Douglas J STAR-LITE (serial 162, cancelled May 31, 2013); Shumard Douglas J STAR-LITE (serial 001, cancelled July 1, 1984). 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 N40DS. 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 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