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N138L

Lovelace SMITH MINIPLANE

Valid Texas

N138L is a Lovelace SMITH MINIPLANE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ennis, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 6, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Lovelace
Model
SMITH MINIPLANE
Serial number
R1
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1967
Cruising speed
86 mph
Transponder code
A099E3 (octal 50114743)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 20, 2014
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 6, 1980
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00381530

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Knudsen Ernest William JR
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 8554
Ennis, TX 75120-8554

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

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

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data