Zlin 526L
N526L is a Zlin 526L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 8, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Zlin
- Model
- 526L
- Serial number
- 1158
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1971
- Transponder code
- A6A032 (octal 51520062)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 8, 2004
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00663632
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- De Witt Luba Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 410 NW 1St Ave Apt 702
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301-3391
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N526L, 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 De Witt Luba Trustee, an individual, certificate issued February 1, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 8, 2004, 33 years after the 1971 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 1158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N526L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20J (serial 241382, cancelled October 23, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N526L: Accident on April 10, 1990 at Inola, OK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Mooney M-20J · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S DECISION TO CONDUCT THE FLIGHT INTO KNOWN ADVERSE WEATHER AND HIS INABILITY TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DUE TO SPATIAL DISORIENTATION. FACTORS WERE THE DARK NIGHT CONDITIONS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90FA093 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