Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42-550FG
N838VK is a Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Towanda, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 15, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg
- Model
- LC42-550FG · all LC42-550FGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 42559
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550-C · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AB77F7 (octal 52673767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 5, 2019
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · July 15, 2019
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00317519
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hepburn Joseph
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 451
Towanda, KS 67144-0451
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.
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The public federal record on N838VK, 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 Hepburn Joseph, an individual, certificate issued September 5, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 2019, 12 years after the 2007 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 42559 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N838VK 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N838VK. 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 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