Orlican S R O M-8 EAGLE
N974FL is an Orlican S R O M-8 EAGLE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Valiair Lc Trustee, an LLC in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 14, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated December 19, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Orlican S R O
- Model
- M-8 EAGLE · all M-8 EAGLEs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2023009
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- AD9309 (octal 53311411)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · December 19, 2023
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01427048
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valiair Lc Trustee
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873
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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 N974FL, 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 Valiair Lc Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued November 14, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated December 19, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2023009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N974FL 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 N974FL: Accident on July 28, 2025 at Lake Worth Beach, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Orlican S R O M-8 EAGLE · operated under 091
On July 28, 2025, about 16:24 eastern daylight time, an Orlican M-8, N974FL, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Lake Worth Beach, Florida. The flight instructor sustained minor injuries, the private pilot sustained no injuries, and five people on the ground sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 flight test. The pilot/owner reported that he had brought the airplane to the United States to have maintenance completed. During the maintenance work a new propeller was installed and the accident flight was…
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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 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