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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Lancair Company LC42-550FG
N797T is a Lancair Company LC42-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to N797T Aviation LLC, an LLC in Stanfield, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated December 19, 2003.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 11:45 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lancair Company
- Model
- LC42-550FG · all LC42-550FGs and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. Now the Cessna TTx. This is how the Lancair Company LC42 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 42031
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- AAD3AF (octal 52551657)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 19, 2003
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00076519
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N797T Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 108 Water Oak Ln
Stanfield, NC 28163-7685
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N797T links to the rest of the register
- Lancair Company LC42 75 registered
- Lancair Company 261 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-550 series 3,077 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- N797T Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Stanfield, NC 3 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,126 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Lancair Company LC42 4 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-550 series 239 reports since 1995
- Where N797T is now · Last seen October 15 at 11:45 am.
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The public federal record on N797T, 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 N797T Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 20, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated December 19, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42031 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N797T according to the deregistered file. [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 N797T. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data