Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42-550FG
N88CE is a Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to N3Mf LLC, an LLC in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 2, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg
- Model
- LC42-550FG · all LC42-550FGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 42536
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-N · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- AC1BB3 (octal 53015663)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · November 2, 2006
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00291219
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N3Mf LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N88CE, 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 N3Mf LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 5, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated November 2, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42536 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88CE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Larson Ken W CHRISTEN EAGLE-II (serial LARSON-0001, cancelled January 9, 2018). 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 N88CE: Accident on September 4, 2011 at Seward, NE: fatal, substantial damage (2 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: Larson Ken W CHRISTEN EAGLE-II · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadvertent pulling of the mixture control lever on takeoff, which shut down the engine.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11FA616 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