Phantom X-1
N831L is a Phantom X-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1986. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Elgin, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 25, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Phantom
- Model
- X-1
- Serial number
- 009R
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- AB5D0B (octal 52656413)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2014
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 25, 2008
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00452949
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith David W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1204
Elgin, SC 29045-1204
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 N831L, 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 Smith David W, an individual, certificate issued February 10, 2014, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 25, 2008, 22 years after the 1986 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 009R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N831L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 727-2Q8 (serial 21826, cancelled February 23, 2004). 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 N831L: Incident on August 8, 1998 at Las Vegas, NV: no injuries, minor 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: Boeing 727-2Q8 · operated under 121
The airport personnel's failure to properly mark the ditch hazard and the taxiway boundaries surrounding it, and, the captain's failure to maintain a situational awareness of his location with respect to the taxiway layout. The dark night lighting condition was a factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX98IA261 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