Flight Design Gmbh CTLS
N43CT is a Flight Design Gmbh CTLS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Copper City Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Bisbee, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated May 11, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Design Gmbh
- Model
- CTLS · all CTLSs and related versions
- Serial number
- F-09-01-08
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A52109 (octal 51220411)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 4, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · May 11, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01031197
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Copper City Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 212 E Vista St
Bisbee, AZ 85603-1813
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N43CT, 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 Copper City Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 4, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated May 11, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F-09-01-08 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N43CT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Elmore Travis C B2B/582 (serial B2B-K061, cancelled July 26, 2006). 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 N43CT: Accident on May 16, 1997 at Haines City, FL: serious 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: Travis C. Elmore B2B/582 · operated under 091
The pilots inadvertent activation of the rear carburetor choke lever during routine engine maintenance the day before the accident. Contributing to the accident was the unsuitable terrain encountered during the forced landing and also failure of the engine manufacturer to include the preflight examination of the choke levers for proper position.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97LA166 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