N270011989 Brooks Sloan GLASAIR III
Safety record in brief:No NTSB accidents or incidents since 19822 ADs may apply1 service difficulty report
Registration
FAA Aircraft Registry · Oct 20, 2026- Registered owner
- Individual owner
- City, state
- Lago Vista, TX
- Certificate issued
- Aug 26, 2019
- Expires
- Aug 31, 2029
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur Built
- Airworthiness date
- Jul 11, 1989
We never show street addresses, even though they appear in the public FAA file. Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Airframe & engine
FAA Registry + type dataAirframe
- Manufacturer
- Brooks Sloan
- Model
- GLASAIR III
- Year
- 1989
- Serial number
- 3045
- Aircraft type
- Fixed wing single engine
- Category
- Land
- Certification
- Not Type Certificated
- Seats
- 2
- Engines
- 1
- Max takeoff weight
- Up to 12,499 lb
- Mode S code
- A2A8EE
Engine
- Make and model
- Lycoming Io-540 Ser
- Type
- Reciprocating
- Power
- 300 hp
Total time and engine hours aren't public. They appear here once the owner adds logbooks.
Ownership history
Ownership history from FAA records- 2019 – nowIndividual ownerLago Vista, TX · current
- 1958 – 1970Individual ownerMontrose, MI · different airframe: Piper J3c-65 S/N 4290
Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Safety record
NTSB · Oct 15, 2026 · FAA ADs · Oct 20, 2026 · SDRs · Oct 16, 2026NTSB events (0)
No NTSB accidents or incidents found for this airframe since 1982.
ADs published since 1998 that may apply (2)
These match the airframe or engine model. Whether each one applies, and whether it's been complied with, depends on serial numbers, equipment and logbook entries. Applicability must be confirmed by a mechanic against the aircraft's records.
| AD | Subject | Effective | Applies to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-19-11 | Lycoming Engines (Formerly Textron Lycoming) AEIO-360, IO-360, O-360, LIO-360, LO-360… | Oct 21, 2005 | Engine (IO-540 SER)Only with: Engines rated at 300 HP or lower, manufactured new, rebuilt, or overhauled after March 1, 1999, or that had a crankshaft installed after March 1, 1999. |
| 2004-05-24 | Lycoming Engines (Formerly Textron Lycoming) AEIO-540, IO-540, LTIO-540, O-540, and… | Mar 30, 2004 | Engine (IO-540 SER)Only with: Engines with crankshaft gear retaining bolts P/N STD-2209 installed; excludes O-540-F series engines subject to AD 99-03-05 with bolt not since replaced, engines with bolt installed at original assembly or replaced by Lycoming per SB 554 after November 10, 1998, engines with bolt from replacement kits 05K19987, 05K23325, 05K23326, 05K23327, 05K23335 or 05K23336, and engines with single-drive dual magnetos. |
AI-extracted — verify against original. Matched from each AD's applicability section; ADs replaced by a later AD are left out.
Service Difficulty Reports (1)
Reports of failures and defects that operators and repair stations sent to the FAA since 1995. A report describes one finding; it is not an accident.
- Landing gear · brace · inoperativeMay 26, 2004
IN FLIGHT, AC LOST HYDR PRESSURE FOR UNRELATED CAUSE. HYDR PRESSURE NORMALLY ASSISTS L/G TO REMAIN IN DOWN AND LOCKED POSITION. ON LANDING, AC TOUCHED DOWN NORMALLY. ON ROLLOUT, NOSE LANDING COLLAPSED. LANDING GEAR SYS IS DESIGNED TO REMAIN DOWN AND LOCKED WITHOUT AID OF HYDR PRESSURE BY USE OF…
From FAA Service Difficulty Reports; matched by N-number and serial number.
Sources
- FAA Aircraft RegistryRegistration, owner city and state, airframe, engineupdated Oct 20, 2026
- NTSB accident and incident databaseAccidents and incidents since 1982updated Oct 15, 2026
- FAA Airworthiness Directives (Federal Register)ADs published since 1998updated Oct 20, 2026
- FAA Service Difficulty ReportsReports since 1995updated Oct 16, 2026