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N888L

Silverstein Sam Iii LANCAIR E S

N888L is a Silverstein Sam Iii LANCAIR E S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Apex, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 8, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Silverstein Sam Iii
Model
LANCAIR E S
Serial number
007
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC3C87 (octal 53036207)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 15, 2020
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 8, 1997
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00745362

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Coats Robert Steven
Type
Individual
Address
1001 Pinedale Rd
Apex, NC 27523-6602

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