Great Lakes 2T-1A
N874K is a Great Lakes 2T-1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Great Lakes Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Palmer Lake, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated March 14, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Great Lakes
- Model
- 2T-1A · all 2T-1As and related versions
- Serial number
- 135
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AC0613 (octal 53003023)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- October 29, 2019
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; To show compliance with regulations · March 14, 1979
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00632191
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Great Lakes Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 9
Palmer Lake, CO 80133-0009
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 N874K, 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 Great Lakes Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 14, 1979, 50 years after the 1929 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 135 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N874K 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 N874K: Accident on June 14, 1987 at Lago Vista, TX: 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: Great Lakes 2T-1A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW87LA144 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data