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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Brm Aero Sro BRISTELL S-LSA
N516BL is a Brm Aero Sro BRISTELL S-LSA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Zionsville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated April 14, 2015.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Brm Aero Sro
- Model
- BRISTELL S-LSA · all BRISTELL S-LSAs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Brm Aero Sro BRISTELL S-LSA 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
- 116/2015
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A677DD (octal 51473735)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 14, 2015
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01176106
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pruitt James L
- 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
- 4543 Zionsville Rd
Zionsville, PA 18092-2849
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N516BL links to the rest of the register
- Brm Aero Sro BRISTELL S-LSA 15 registered
- Brm Aero Sro 16 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912 IS 878 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Zionsville, PA 4 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N516BL, 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 Pruitt James L, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated April 14, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 116/2015 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N516BL 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N516BL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data