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N78VK

Claude Roy LANCAIR LEGACY RG

Valid Texas

N78VK is a Claude Roy LANCAIR LEGACY RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Granbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 5, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Claude Roy
Model
LANCAIR LEGACY RG
Serial number
293
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-N · 310 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2009
Transponder code
AA9012 (octal 52510022)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 16, 2022
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 5, 2016
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01223397

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sonier Michele M
Type
Co-owned
Address
9608 Taxiway Dr
Granbury, TX 76049-4452
Co-owners
Keyt Richard

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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

2011-03-18Kinser VARIEZE · N-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N78VK, 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 Sonier Michele M, a co-owned, certificate issued August 16, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 5, 2016, 7 years after the 2009 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 293 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N78VK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Kinser VARIEZE (serial 249, cancelled March 18, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N78VK. 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