Fretwell Dh/Fretwell Jr LANCAIR LEGACY
N542DF is a Fretwell Dh/Fretwell Jr LANCAIR LEGACY, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Paso Robles, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 24, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fretwell Dh/Fretwell Jr
- Model
- LANCAIR LEGACY
- Serial number
- LS-218
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A6DFAB (octal 51557653)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 24, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00437649
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fretwell David H
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 9202 Windmill Rd
Paso Robles, CA 93446-9700 - Co-owners
- Fretwell Janet R
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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 N542DF, 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 Fretwell David H, a co-owned, certificate issued December 3, 2007, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 24, 2008, 4 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 LS-218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N542DF 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 N542DF. 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 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