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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Columbia 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg
- Model
- LC42-550FG · all LC42-550FGs and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. This is how the Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 42536
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-N · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- AC1BB3 (octal 53015663)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 2, 2006
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00291219
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N3Mf LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N88CE links to the rest of the register
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42 61 registered
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg 269 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-550-N 2,787 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- N3Mf LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lewes, DE 896 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware 10,959 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC42 3 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-550-N 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-550-N 335 reports since 1995
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data