Great Lakes 2T-1A-1
N503GL is a Great Lakes 2T-1A-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lonoke, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 15, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Great Lakes
- Model
- 2T-1A-1 · all 2T-1A-1s 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
- 0503
- 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
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A645B6 (octal 51442666)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 5, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 5, 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 · November 15, 1973
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00661015
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Womack Thomas G
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 242 Adamson Ct
Lonoke, AR 72086-9331
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N503GL 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 27,312 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Lonoke, AR 54 aircraft registered in this town
- Arkansas 3,497 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
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The public federal record on N503GL, 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 Womack Thomas G, an individual, certificate issued October 5, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0503 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N503GL 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]
1 NTSB record under N503GL: Accident on June 14, 2021 at Roanoke, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Great Lakes 2T-1A-1 · operated under 091
Inadequate maintenance of the brake system which resulted in the caliper binding closed and the subsequent loss of directional control during the landing roll.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data