Lewis Gayle SONERIA II
N444GL is a Lewis Gayle SONERIA II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Galesburg, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 1989 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 26, 1989. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lewis Gayle
- Model
- SONERIA II
- Serial number
- 759
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A55A1A (octal 51255032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 1989
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 26, 1989
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00034421
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lewis Gayle A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 346 Indiana Ave
Galesburg, IL 61401-5417
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 1
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The public federal record on N444GL, 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 Lewis Gayle A, an individual, certificate issued January 30, 1989, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 26, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 759 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N444GL according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 28, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N444GL. 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