Youkey John N LANCAIR 235
N70718 is a Youkey John N LANCAIR 235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Yuma, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2003 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 12, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Youkey John N
- Model
- LANCAIR 235
- Serial number
- 037
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC LANCAIR 320/235
- Transponder code
- A9712B (octal 52270453)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 27, 2003
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 12, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00033949
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Youkey John N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3151 W 18Th St
Yuma, AZ 85364-5044
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N70718, 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 Youkey John N, an individual, certificate issued February 27, 2003, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 12, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 037 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N70718 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hallal C/Hallal M CHALLENGER II (serial CH20292W0797, cancelled December 9, 1996); Piper J3C-65 (serial 17735, cancelled May 2, 1951). 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 N70718: Accident on June 13, 2004 at Hays, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Youkey Lancair 235 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions and his failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll. Factors associated with the accident were the gusty crosswind, the runway marker sign, and the taxiway lights which were contacted.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data