Fife Glade W LANCAIR 320
N96GF is a Fife Glade W LANCAIR 320, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Harrison, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fife Glade W
- Model
- LANCAIR 320
- Serial number
- 633-320-378
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2A · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AD5A69 (octal 53255151)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 28, 2015
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00815761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hile Phillip J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 231 George Lewis Ct
Harrison, OH 45030-4919
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N96GF, 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 Hile Phillip J, an individual, certificate issued June 6, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 28, 2015, 19 years after the 1996 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 633-320-378 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96GF 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 N96GF: Accident on June 15, 1998 at Palm Springs, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Fife LANCAIR 320 · operated under 091
A failure of the electrical system for undetermined reasons. The pilot's decision to continue flight with a suspected electrical system anomaly is a factor in the accident.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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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