French Larry A LION HEART
N985L is a French Larry A LION HEART, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 7 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fayetteville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 1997 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 15, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- French Larry A
- Model
- LION HEART
- Serial number
- GA-LH-001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- ADBEB1 (octal 53337261)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 18, 1997
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · April 15, 1999
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00936611
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- French Larry A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18 Curtis Ln
Fayetteville, TN 37334-6292
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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 N985L, 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 French Larry A, an individual, certificate issued July 18, 1997, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated April 15, 1999, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA-LH-001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N985L 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 N985L. 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 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