American Legend Aircraft Co AL3
N79LC is an American Legend Aircraft Co AL3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Granite Bay, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for production flight testing, dated November 25, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Legend Aircraft Co
- Model
- AL3 · all AL3s and related versions
- Serial number
- AL-1143
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AAB6A9 (octal 52533251)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permit · Production flight testing · November 25, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01017852
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Estes Bruce
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5750 Brandywine Ct
Granite Bay, CA 95746-9481
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N79LC, 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 Estes Bruce, an individual, certificate issued January 21, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Special flight permit certificate for production flight testing, dated November 25, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AL-1143 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N79LC 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 N79LC: Accident on February 1, 2025 at Upland, CA: 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: American Legend Aircraft CO AL3 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate separation during landing, which resulted in a runway collision with another airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR25LA087 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data