Hanson Lonn AVID AMPHIBIAN
N4118X is a Hanson Lonn AVID AMPHIBIAN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Blaine, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 27, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hanson Lonn
- Model
- AVID AMPHIBIAN
- Serial number
- 117A
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A4DB5D (octal 51155535)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 27, 1994
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00965092
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Connolly Luke A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 200 93Rd Ave NE
Blaine, MN 55434-1227
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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 1
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The public federal record on N4118X, 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 Connolly Luke A, an individual, certificate issued September 22, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 27, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 117A for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4118X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 100 (serial 216, cancelled February 27, 1969). 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 N4118X: Accident on August 2, 2014 at Waterville, MN: minor 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: Hanson Lonn AVID AMPHIBIAN · operated under 091
The noncertificated pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control after an inadvertent takeoff, which resulted in collision with terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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