Hamilton BABY GREAT LAKES
N96LH is a Hamilton BABY GREAT LAKES, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 3, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hamilton
- Model
- BABY GREAT LAKES
- Serial number
- 6720D69B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 111 mph
- Transponder code
- AD5ACF (octal 53255317)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 3, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00893530
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ffrench Lawrence R JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15104 Strader Cir
Austin, TX 78734-6331
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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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N96LH, 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 Ffrench Lawrence R JR, an individual, certificate issued March 19, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6720D69B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N96LH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Harvard Lee S LONG-EZ (serial 001, cancelled April 18, 2000). 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 N96LH: Accident on February 11, 1999 at Spring Hill, FL: minor 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: Lee S. Harvard LONG-EZ · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to insure the canopy was closed prior to takeoff resulting in an aborted takeoff, overheating of the brakes, and a roll over when the aircraft was turned off the runway into the grass in an attempt to stop.
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
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