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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026American Legend Aircraft Co AL18
N859JL is an American Legend Aircraft Co AL18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mineola, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated May 22, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Legend Aircraft Co
- Model
- AL18 · all AL18s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. A new-production Cub: steel tube and fabric. This is how the American Legend Aircraft Co AL18 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
- AL-1184
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-233 · 115 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Kit
- AMERICAN LEGEND AIRCRAFT CO AL18
- Transponder code
- ABC99A (octal 52744632)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 5, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 22, 2014
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01137360
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Zabransky Gregory J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 400 County Road 2355
Mineola, TX 75773-3654
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N859JL links to the rest of the register
- American Legend Aircraft Co AL18 48 registered
- American Legend Aircraft Co 231 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-233 6 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Mineola, TX 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Mineola Wisener Field · 3F9
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-233 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-233 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N859JL, 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 Zabransky Gregory J, an individual, certificate issued April 5, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated May 22, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AL-1184 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N859JL 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 N859JL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data