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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Great Lakes
- Model
- 2T-1A · all 2T-1As and related versions
- Serial number
- 0502
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Acrobatic · August 9, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00031015
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Dancing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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.
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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]
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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Great Lakes 2T-1A · operated under 091
The pilot's excessive brake application during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12CA007 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX05LA037 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX02LA080 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data