Lancair Company LC42-550FG
N6505V is a Lancair Company LC42-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Elg Air LLC, an LLC in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 2, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lancair Company
- Model
- LC42-550FG · all LC42-550FGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 42053
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A88FD5 (octal 52107725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · April 2, 2004
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00090999
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elg Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2160 Highland Ave S
Birmingham, AL 35205-4034
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N6505V, 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 Elg Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 17, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. 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 42053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6505V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172RG (serial 172RG0738, cancelled November 21, 1997). 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 N6505V: Accident on May 8, 1997 at Intracoastal, LA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172RG · operated under 091
the pilot's decision to fly, when he was not in good physical condition; and his subsequent loss of aircraft control due to incapacitation. A related factor was: the pilot's perception of an urgency (pressure) to fly, induced by conditions/events.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97FA181 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
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