Barnes Don LANCAIR LEGACY
N508DB is a Barnes Don LANCAIR LEGACY, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Scottsdale, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 9, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 22, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Barnes Don
- Model
- LANCAIR LEGACY
- Serial number
- L2K-198
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-N · 310 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC LEGACY
- Transponder code
- A657F5 (octal 51453765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 9, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 22, 2018
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00129289
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Catalano George A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 8620 E San Marcos Dr
Scottsdale, AZ 85258-2554 - Co-owners
- Catalano Christina
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 N508DB, 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 Catalano George A, a co-owned, certificate issued March 9, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 22, 2018, 14 years after the 2004 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial L2K-198 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N508DB 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 N508DB: Accident on August 14, 2005 at Groveland, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Barnes Lancair Legacy · operated under 091
The inaccurate fuel quantity sensors and the pilot's failure to verify the fuel quantity on board prior to takeoff, which resulted in fuel exhaustion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX05LA267 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
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