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N987SL

Meyer Geoffrey A GOAT

Valid Texas

N987SL is a Meyer Geoffrey A GOAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lamesa, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 5, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Meyer Geoffrey A
Model
GOAT
Serial number
1028KCM
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO 540 SER · 260 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2006
Transponder code
ADC6C0 (octal 53343300)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 7, 2023
Expires
October 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · December 5, 2006
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00220329

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bell Steven C
Type
Individual
Address
1906 County Road 13
Lamesa, TX 79331-1805

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N987SL, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bell Steven C, an individual, certificate issued October 7, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 5, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1028KCM for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N987SL according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N987SL: Accident on June 16, 2014 at Wolcott, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CEN14CA318Accident on June 16, 2014 at Wolcott, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Meyer Geoffrey A GOAT · operated under 091

The failure of an oil line leading to the oil pressure transducer which resulted in oil starvation and subsequent loss of engine power.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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