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N98L

Linder Mong Sport MS-1

Valid Michigan

N98L is a Linder Mong Sport MS-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lansing, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 22, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Linder Mong Sport
Model
MS-1
Serial number
HL-1
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
1965
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
ADA9C5 (octal 53324705)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 12, 2020
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
August 20, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · February 22, 2002
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00903800

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Graysmith Carol E
Type
Individual
Address
15894 Elmira St
Lansing, MI 48906-1107

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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N98L, 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 Graysmith Carol E, an individual, certificate issued December 12, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 22, 2002, 37 years after the 1965 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HL-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N98L 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 N98L: Accident on May 1, 1982 at Pendleton, IN: serious injuries, destroyed. 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

CHI82DA147Accident on May 1, 1982 at Pendleton, IN: serious injuries, destroyed.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mong Sport MS-1 · operated under 091

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 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