David D Mcknight LANCAIR ES
N881DM is a David D Mcknight LANCAIR ES, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mooresville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 11, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- David D Mcknight
- Model
- LANCAIR ES
- Serial number
- ESDD-197
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550-E · 350 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC LANCAIR ES
- Transponder code
- AC21E3 (octal 53020743)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 11, 2016
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01229604
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcknight David D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 413 Normandy Rd
Mooresville, NC 28117-8433
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
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The public federal record on N881DM, 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 Mcknight David D, an individual, certificate issued January 19, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 11, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial ESDD-197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N881DM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: North American NA-265-40 (serial 282-137, cancelled April 8, 2005). 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 N881DM. 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