Great Lakes 2T-1A-2
N87GL is a Great Lakes 2T-1A-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Salisbury, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated December 3, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Great Lakes
- Model
- 2T-1A-2 · all 2T-1A-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0826
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-B1G6 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ABF49E (octal 52772236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Acrobatic · December 3, 2019
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00640994
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pendleton Terry S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1645 Leonard Rd
Salisbury, NC 28146-2430
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N87GL, 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 Pendleton Terry S, an individual, certificate issued February 10, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 3, 2019, 41 years after the 1978 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 0826 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N87GL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 1900C (serial UC-87, cancelled October 25, 1999). 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]
1 NTSB record under N87GL: Accident on November 19, 1996 at Quincy, IL: fatal, destroyed (14 fatal). 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: Beech 1900C · operated under 135
the failure of the pilots in the King Air A90 to effectively monitor the common traffic advisory frequency or to properly scan for traffic, resulting in their commencing a takeoff roll when the Beech 1900C (United Express flight 5925) was landing on an intersecting runway. Contributing to the cause of the accident was the Cherokee pilot's interrupted radio transmission, which led to the Beech 1900C pilot's misunderstanding of the transmission as an indication from the King Air that it would not take off until after flight 5925 had cleared the runway. Contributing to the severity of the accident and the loss of life were the lack of adequate aircraft rescue and firefighting services and the failure of the air stair door on the Beech 1900C to be opened. (NTSB Report AAR-97/04)
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA97MA009 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
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