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A Globe GC-1 Swift, the same model family as N50280
A Globe GC-1 Swift like this one, not N50280 itself. Photo: Photo by Eric Gideon (en:User:Ericg), CC BY-SA 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures of N50280 itself may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N50280

Globe GC-1B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDelaware

N50280 is a Globe GC-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to K&S Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Globe
Model
GC-1B · all GC-1Bs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Globe GC-1 Swift family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
352
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A644E7 (octal 51442347)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 5, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 5, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00200839

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
K&S Aviation LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608

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

1977-09-07Cessna 150H · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Connections how N50280 links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Lewes, DE 898 aircraft registered in this town
  • Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N50280.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N50280, 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 K&S Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 5, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 352 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N50280 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150H (serial 15069191, cancelled September 7, 1977). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N50280. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data