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N685L

Lund John G SONERAI IILT

N685L is a Lund John G SONERAI IILT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 14, 1986.

Aircraft

Maker
Lund John G
Model
SONERAI IILT
Serial number
01051
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A916C4 (octal 52213304)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 23, 2021
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 14, 1986
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00020097

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hyman Jesse P
Type
Individual
Address
73 Otter Run Rd
Pawleys Island, SC 29585-6579

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N685L, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hyman Jesse P, an individual, certificate issued January 23, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 01051 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N685L according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N685L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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