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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Bills Richard R LANCAIR LEGACY
N618AM is a Bills Richard R LANCAIR LEGACY, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fredericksburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 13, 2009.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bills Richard R
- Model
- LANCAIR LEGACY
- Serial number
- L2K-320
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-A · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC LEGACY
- Transponder code
- A80C82 (octal 52006202)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 14, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 13, 2009
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01042036
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bills Richard R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6130 Center Point Rd
Fredericksburg, TX 78624-8303
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N618AM links to the rest of the register
- Bills Richard R 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental IO-550-A 3 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Fredericksburg, TX 143 aircraft registered in this town
- Gillespie County · T82
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-550-A 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-550-A 6 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N618AM, 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 Bills Richard R, an individual, certificate issued October 14, 2009, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 13, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial L2K-320 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N618AM 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 N618AM: Accident on December 30, 2025 at Fredericksburg, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lancair Legacy · operated under 091
On December 30, 2025, about 1623 central standard time, a Lancair Legacy RG airplane, N618AM, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Fredericksburg, Texas. The pilot sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. A preliminary review of ADS-B data showed that the pilot, who is also the airplane owner and builder, departed in the airplane at 1547 from runway 32 at the Gillespie County Airport (T82), Fredericksburg Texas, for the local area flight. The airplane flew to the west near Harper, Texas, where a man…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data