Lawson Thomas O LANCAIR SUPER ES
N905ET is a Lawson Thomas O LANCAIR SUPER ES, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Green Valley, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating kit-built aircraft, dated February 3, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lawson Thomas O
- Model
- LANCAIR SUPER ES
- Serial number
- 148
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC SUPER ES
- Transponder code
- AC8235 (octal 53101065)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating kit-built aircraft · February 3, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00218649
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dawson Richard E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1470 N Paseo Cerca
Green Valley, AZ 85614-4140
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N905ET, 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 Dawson Richard E, an individual, certificate issued April 7, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating kit-built aircraft; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 148 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N905ET according to the deregistered file. [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 N905ET: Accident on September 12, 2025 at Mount Hamilton, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lawson Thomas O LANCAIR SUPER ES · operated under 091
On September 12, 2025, about 1421 Pacific daylight time, an experimental amateur-built Lancair Super ES, N905ET, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Mount Hamilton, California. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot’s sister reported that the pilot was due to depart from Ryan Field Airport (RYN), Tucson, Arizona, with the intended destination of the Norman Y Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC), San Jose, California. Hunters near the accident site reported observing the ai…
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- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data