Great Lakes 2T-1A
N502GL is a Great Lakes 2T-1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sky Dancing LLC, an LLC in La Jolla, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated August 9, 1973.
Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 12:24 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Great Lakes
- Model
- 2T-1A · all 2T-1As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. This is how the Great Lakes 2 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
- 0502
- 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 · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A641FF (octal 51440777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 9, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00031015
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Dancing 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
- 1515 Coast Walk
La Jolla, CA 92037-3731
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.
Connections how N502GL links to the rest of the register
- Great Lakes 2 168 registered
- Great Lakes 168 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,311 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Sky Dancing LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- La Jolla, CA 59 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,655 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Great Lakes 2 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Great Lakes 2 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Great Lakes 2 63 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
- Where N502GL is now · Last seen October 9 at 12:24 pm.
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The public federal record on N502GL, 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 Sky Dancing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 19, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for acrobatic, dated August 9, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0502 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N502GL according to the deregistered file. [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]
3 NTSB records under N502GL: Accident on October 13, 2011 at San Diego, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 13, 2004 at San Diego, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 9, 2002 at San Diego, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Great Lakes 2T-1A · operated under 091
The pilot's excessive brake application during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Great Lakes 2T-1A · operated under 091
the flight instructor's failure to maintain directional control during the landing rollout.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Great Lakes 2T-1A-1 · operated under 091
The pilot failed to maintain directional control after encountering a gust of wind during the landing roll. Factors were the unexpected wind gusts and the soft terrain adjacent to the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data