Carl Franklin Lipe LANCAIR 4-P
N549CJ is a Carl Franklin Lipe LANCAIR 4-P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 4 seats. It is registered to General Aero LLC, an LLC in Union Beach, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 24, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Carl Franklin Lipe
- Model
- LANCAIR 4-P
- Serial number
- 218
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550-E · 350 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2014
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC LANCAIR IV P
- Transponder code
- A6F996 (octal 51574626)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 24, 2014
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01122800
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- General Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 718 Brook Ave
Union Beach, NJ 07735-3143
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N549CJ, 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 General Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 22, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 24, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N549CJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 525 (serial 525-0549, cancelled January 11, 2006). 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 N549CJ: Accident on February 10, 2019 at Laramie, WY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lancair IV · operated under 091
An environmental stress cracking failure of the acrylic windshield, which resulted in a rapid decompression during cruise flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR19LA088 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data