Great Lakes 2T-1A-2
N6196L is a Great Lakes 2T-1A-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kingwood, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2004 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated January 15, 1976.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Great Lakes
- Model
- 2T-1A-2 · all 2T-1A-2s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. This is how the Great Lakes 2 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 0723
- 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 · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A81362 (octal 52011542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2004
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 15, 1976
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00071506
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fiala Frederick P
- 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
- 23200 Forest North Dr Apt 207
Kingwood, TX 77339-2090
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N6196L links to the rest of the register
- Great Lakes 2 168 registered
- Great Lakes 168 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,559 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Kingwood, TX 76 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Great Lakes 2 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Great Lakes 2 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Great Lakes 2 63 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N6196L, 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 Fiala Frederick P, an individual, certificate issued August 25, 2004, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for acrobatic, dated January 15, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0723 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6196L 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 N6196L: Accident on February 26, 2011 at Kingsville, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Great Lakes 2T-1A-2 · operated under 091
A pre-existing crack in the front spar of the right horizontal stabilizer near a riveted fitting, causing it to fail and separate from the airplane in flight. Contributing to the accident was the failure of maintenance personnel comply with existing service bulletins and to detect and repair the damaged spar.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data