Robert A Mena LANCAIR 235
N878RM is a Robert A Mena LANCAIR 235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tillamook, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 4, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robert A Mena
- Model
- LANCAIR 235
- Serial number
- 145
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-290-D2 · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- NEICO AVIATION INC LANCAIR 235
- Transponder code
- AC1591 (octal 53012621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 13, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 4, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01100677
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowman Mark R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1105 5Th St
Tillamook, OR 97141-3508
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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N878RM, 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 Bowman Mark R, an individual, certificate issued December 13, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 4, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 145 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N878RM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Canadair Ltd CL-600-2A12 (serial 3012, cancelled April 6, 2007). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N878RM. 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