Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41-550FG
N5688F is a Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hereford, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 22, 2006. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg
- Model
- LC41-550FG · all LC41-550FGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 41566
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550-C · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A74818 (octal 51644030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · July 22, 2006
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00218539
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Link John Ernest
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1712 Plains Ave
Hereford, TX 79045-3712
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 1
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5688F, 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 Link John Ernest, an individual, certificate issued January 28, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41566 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5688F was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech B200 (serial BB1375, cancelled September 6, 1990); Southern Air-Time Inc BUCCANEER (serial 002, cancelled April 22, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 24, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5688F. 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