Flight Design Gmbh CTSW
N531CT is a Flight Design Gmbh CTSW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Steele, North Dakota. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated March 22, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Design Gmbh
- Model
- CTSW · all CTSWs and related versions
- Serial number
- 06-12-11
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A6B468 (octal 51532150)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · March 22, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00318899
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 110 4Th St NE
Steele, ND 58482-7042
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N531CT, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated March 22, 2007, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 06-12-11 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N531CT 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 N531CT: Accident on October 17, 2025 at Casa Grande, AZ: minor 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: Flight Design GMBH CTSW · operated under 091
On October 17, 2025, about 13:20 mountain standard time, a Flight Design GMBH CTSW, N531CT, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Casa Grande, Arizona. The pilot received minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91personal flight. The pilot reported that he sumped the fuel and found no water or contaminants, then verified 12 gallons of fuel on board by viewing the fuel sight tubes at the root of the overhead wings. The engine runup, departure and climb were uneventful. About 25 minutes into the flight the engine speed…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR26LA022 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