Great Lakes 2T-1A
N856L is a Great Lakes 2T-1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1930. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in New Concord, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated May 8, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Great Lakes
- Model
- 2T-1A · all 2T-1As 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
- 117
- 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 I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1930
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ABBE9C (octal 52737234)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 26, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 8, 1978
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00302701
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Slack Troy Trustee
- 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
- 11822 Wilderness Ln
New Concord, OH 43762-9491 - Co-owners
- Slack Terri Trustee
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 N856L 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 IO-360 series 8,561 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- New Concord, OH 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Ohio 8,534 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 IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N856L, 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 Slack Troy Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued March 26, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 8, 1978, 48 years after the 1930 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 117 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N856L 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 N856L: Accident on June 20, 2020 at Cambridge, OH: 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Great Lakes 2T 1A · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in the airplane exiting the runway and striking a ditch.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data