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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41-550FG
N959PM is a Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to D W Lusk Contracting LLC, an LLC in Snowflake, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated February 3, 2007.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 10:08 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg
- Model
- LC41-550FG · all LC41-550FGs 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. Now the Cessna TTx. This is how the Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41 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
- 41728
- 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 TSIO-550-C · 310 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AD5767 (octal 53253547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 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 · February 3, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00312749
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- D W Lusk Contracting 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
- 1230 W Rutledge Dr
Snowflake, AZ 85937-6272
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N959PM links to the rest of the register
- Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41 207 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 TSIO-550-C 479 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- D W Lusk Contracting LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Snowflake, AZ 23 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,435 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41 3 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-550-C 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-550-C 81 reports since 1995
- Where N959PM is now · Last seen Thursday at 10:08 am.
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The public federal record on N959PM, 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 D W Lusk Contracting LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 22, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated February 3, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41728 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N959PM 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N959PM. 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 November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data