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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41-550FG
N799ME is a Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Van Bortel Aircraft INC, a corporation in Arlington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated January 5, 2007. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 3:53 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg
- Model
- LC41-550FG · all LC41-550FGs 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 Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41 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
- 41716
- 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 TSIO-550-C · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AADA8C (octal 52555214)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2026
- 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 · January 5, 2007
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00302689
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Bortel Aircraft INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4912 S Collins St
Arlington, TX 76018-1135
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 1
Connections how N799ME links to the rest of the register
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41 207 registered
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg 269 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-550-C 480 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Van Bortel Aircraft INC 72 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to September 25, 2027
- Arlington, TX 254 aircraft registered in this town
- Arlington Municipal · GKY
- Texas 29,938 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41 3 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-550-C 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-550-C 81 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wastegate Valve, cracked · 2012-05-10
- Where N799ME is now · Last seen October 16 at 3:53 pm.
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The public federal record on N799ME, 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 Van Bortel Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated January 5, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41716 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N799ME according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 7, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N799ME. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data