Westphal Dana L LANCAIR LEGACY
N97DW is a Westphal Dana L LANCAIR LEGACY, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Broussard, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2007 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Westphal Dana L
- Model
- LANCAIR LEGACY
- Serial number
- L2K-165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC LEGACY
- Transponder code
- AD81AC (octal 53300654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2007
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 22, 2008
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00424499
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Westphal Dana L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 218 N Greenhill Cir
Broussard, LA 70518
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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 N97DW, 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 Westphal Dana L, an individual, certificate issued October 22, 2007, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial L2K-165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97DW 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 N97DW: Accident on May 31, 2003 at Grand Prairie, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerotek Pitts S-2A · operated under 091
the pilot's improper inspection of the aircraft after impacting trees on a previous flight which resulted in an in-flight separation of the lower left wing and aileron while performing aerobatic maneuvers.
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 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