Great Lakes 2T-1A-2
N79GL is a Great Lakes 2T-1A-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fresno, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2022 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated February 18, 1977.
Where is it now Last seen October 10 at 2:11 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Great Lakes
- Model
- 2T-1A-2 · all 2T-1A-2s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. This is how the Great Lakes 2 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
- 0754
- 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 · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AAB64D (octal 52533115)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2022
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 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 · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 18, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00520924
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Robert B
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7326 N Blythe Ave
Fresno, CA 93722-9802 - Co-owners
- Jones Gloria I
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N79GL links to the rest of the register
- Great Lakes 2 168 registered
- Great Lakes 168 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-360 series 884 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Fresno, CA 293 aircraft registered in this town
- Fresno Yosemite International · FAT
- Fresno Chandler Executive · FCH
- Sierra Sky Park Airport · E79
- California 27,642 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Great Lakes 2 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Great Lakes 2 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Great Lakes 2 63 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 30 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Dn Lock Switch, malfunctioned · 1996-05-12
- Report filed on this aircraft: Engine, oil leak · 1995-08-08
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pwr Pack Motor, inop · 1995-05-12
- Where N79GL is now · Last seen October 10 at 2:11 pm.
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The public federal record on N79GL, 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 Jones Robert B, a co-owned, certificate issued May 17, 2022, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for acrobatic, dated February 18, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0754 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N79GL 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]
1 NTSB record under N79GL: Accident on December 10, 1997 at Rockford, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Beech 1900C · operated under 091
improper installation of aileron cables by the maintenance personnel, inadequate inspection by the company's maintenance personnel of maintenance performed, and inadequate preflight by the pilot.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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