Hibbard Merle A LANCAIR 360
N72231 is a Hibbard Merle A LANCAIR 360, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Lxa Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2010 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 15, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hibbard Merle A
- Model
- LANCAIR 360
- Serial number
- 912-320-753SFB
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A9ADD5 (octal 52326725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2010
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 15, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00866411
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lxa Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N72231, 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 Lxa Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 25, 2010, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 15, 1999, 3 years after the 1996 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 912-320-753SFB for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72231 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 9404, cancelled May 22, 1965). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N72231. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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