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N47L

Great Lakes 2T-1A-2

N47L is a Great Lakes 2T-1A-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Manteo, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated June 24, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Great Lakes
Model
2T-1A-2 · all 2T-1A-2s and related versions
Serial number
0770
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A5BFBB (octal 51337673)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 18, 2011
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Acrobatic · June 24, 1977
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00460045

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Melugin Michael R
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 1092
Manteo, NC 27954-1092
Co-owners
Melugin Martha E

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1965-12-06Mong Sport BROWN SPECIAL · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N47L, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Melugin Michael R, a co-owned, certificate issued June 18, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for acrobatic, dated June 24, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0770 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N47L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mong Sport BROWN SPECIAL (serial 1, cancelled December 6, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N47L: Accident on August 17, 1996 at Montgomery, AL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ATL96LA120Accident on August 17, 1996 at Montgomery, AL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Great Lakes GL2T-1A-2 · operated under 091

The locked rudder in a fully deflected position which resulted in the pilot's inability to maintain directional control.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL96LA120 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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