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Liberty Aerospace Incorporated LIBERTY XL-2
N518XL is a Liberty Aerospace Incorporated LIBERTY XL-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 23, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Liberty Aerospace Incorporated
- Model
- LIBERTY XL-2 · all LIBERTY XL-2s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. A composite fuselage with aluminium wings. This is how the Liberty Aerospace Incorporated LIBERTY XL-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
- 0013
- 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 · Cont Motor IO-240-B · 125 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A6813F (octal 51500477)
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 26, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2024
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 23, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00216619
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- International Air Services INC Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 701 S Carson St Ste 200
Carson City, NV 89701-5239
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N518XL links to the rest of the register
- Liberty Aerospace Incorporated LIBERTY XL-2 48 registered
- Liberty Aerospace Incorporated 51 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-240-B 212 aircraft with this engine series · 125 hp
- International Air Services INC Trustee 619 aircraft in the fleet
- Carson City, NV 966 aircraft registered in this town
- Carson City Airport · CXP
- Nevada 4,583 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Liberty Aerospace Incorporated LIBERTY XL-2 2 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-240-B 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-240-B 346 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N518XL.json.
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The public federal record on N518XL, 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 International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued August 26, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 23, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N518XL 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 N518XL. 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 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data