Consolidated L5E1
N8071 is a Consolidated L5E1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Urbana, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 28, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated
- Model
- L5E1
- Serial number
- 4418071
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-435A/0-435C · 190 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Transponder code
- AAFE59 (octal 52577131)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 28, 2004
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00024016
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Polsley John Steven
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 162 New Haven Dr
Urbana, OH 43078-2252 - Co-owners
- Polsley John Weston
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8071, 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 Polsley John Steven, a co-owned, certificate issued December 3, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 28, 2004, 59 years after the 1945 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4418071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8071 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Spartan C3-5 (serial 114, cancelled August 1, 1930). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8071: Accident on July 25, 1991 at Ashland, KY: 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: Cessna 177RG · operated under 091
LOST OF ENGINE POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO91LA069 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
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