Kerner John LANCAIR 4 P
N7774P is a Kerner John LANCAIR 4 P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Black Scorpion LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 9, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kerner John
- Model
- LANCAIR 4 P
- Serial number
- LIV-072
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AA85FA (octal 52502772)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 9, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00826481
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Black Scorpion LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 55 W 14Th St Ste 101
Helena, MT 59601-3387
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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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7774P, 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 Black Scorpion LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 14, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 9, 2026, 29 years after the 1997 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 LIV-072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7774P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-24-250 (serial 24-2990, cancelled September 26, 2017). 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 N7774P: Accident on August 24, 2012 at Milner, CO: fatal, substantial damage (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: Piper PA-24-250 · operated under 091
The student pilot's impairment from alcohol, marijuana, and hypoxia, which adversely affected his ability to maintain control of the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12FA571 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