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Aircraft Mechanic's, Storage and Airport Liens; Non-Judicial Aircraft Sales

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Aircraft Mechanic’s, Storage and Airport Liens; Non-Judicial Aircraft Sales

Asset reference page. Legal information, not legal advice. Last verified: 2026-10-16.

Overview

Aircraft can reach a buyer through distinct court and nonjudicial channels. The nonjudicial possibilities examined here include:

  1. UCC Article 9 repossession and disposition by a secured creditor; a true lessor’s remedies require their own analysis.
  2. Statutory lien sales by a repair station, fuel vendor, fixed-base operator, hangar or tie-down provider under a state aircraft-lien statute.
  3. Airport-operator sales or disposals of abandoned aircraft under state airport law.

Availability and purchaser protection depend on the applicable state’s law, the interest enforced and the notice/priority rules; neither every fuel/storage claim nor every airport disposition is a private auction. FAA paperwork does not itself discharge all competing interests. The FAA registers the buyer on a bill of sale “signed by the sheriff, auctioneer, or other authorized person who conducted the sale, and stating that the sale was made under applicable local law” (14 CFR § 47.11(c)); for a mechanic’s-lien sale conducted by the lienholder, FAA guidance requires “the citation of the law under which sale was conducted, a statement that it was conducted in accordance with the law, and documentary evidence of compliance” (AC 8050-94, item 15). See faa-aircraft-registry.

1. UCC Article 9 repossession and disposition

The provisions below use model UCC text reproduced by Cornell LII (retrieved 2026-10-16); each state’s enactment can vary — needs_verification for any specific state.

  • Repossession. After default a secured party “may take possession of the collateral” and, “without removal, may render equipment unusable and dispose of collateral on a debtor’s premises” (§ 9-609(a)), “pursuant to judicial process” or “without judicial process, if it proceeds without breach of the peace” (§ 9-609(b)).
  • Disposition. The secured party “may sell, lease, license, or otherwise dispose of any or all of the collateral”; “Every aspect of a disposition … must be commercially reasonable,” by “public or private proceedings” (§ 9-610(a)–(b)). It may buy at a public disposition, and at a private one only if the collateral is “customarily sold on a recognized market or the subject of widely distributed standard price quotations” (§ 9-610(c)). A disposition carries the title warranties of a voluntary sale unless disclaimed (§ 9-610(d)–(e)).
  • Notice. A “reasonable authenticated notification of disposition” goes to the debtor, any secondary obligor, and — for non-consumer collateral — persons who sent notice of a claim, filed-financing-statement secured parties, and “any other secured party that, 10 days before the notification date, held a security interest in the collateral perfected by compliance with a statute, regulation, or treaty described in Section 9-311(a)” (§ 9-611(b)–(c)). For an aircraft that is the FAA-recording regime, so FAA-recorded secured parties are notice parties.
  • Effect. A disposition “transfers to a transferee for value all of the debtor’s rights,” “discharges the security interest under which the disposition is made,” and “discharges any subordinate security interest or other subordinate lien” (§ 9-617(a)). A good-faith transferee takes free “even if the secured party fails to comply with this article” (§ 9-617(b)); otherwise the transferee takes subject to the debtor’s rights, the enforced interest and “any other security interest or other lien” (§ 9-617(c)).
  • FAA paperwork. Form 8050-4 (Certificate of Repossession) or equivalent, the security agreement unless already recorded, and the bill of sale from the person who conducted the sale (14 CFR § 47.11(b)). The Form 8050-4 instructions describe retention of collateral (“strict foreclosure”) versus sale (“statutory foreclosure”) filings (AC Form 8050-4 (09/24)).
  • Cape Town objects. A chargee’s Convention remedies (possession, sale, lease) may be used without leave of court under the U.S. art. 54 declaration; 10 working days’ written notice is deemed reasonable (Protocol art. IX(4)). See cape-town-convention-aircraft.
  • Airline debtors. 11 U.S.C. § 1110 preserves repossession and disposition rights against certificated air carriers after a 60-day window (§ 1110(a)).

2. Priority of a mechanic’s/possessory lien — the baseline rules

  • UCC § 9-333(b): “A possessory lien on goods has priority over a security interest in the goods unless the lien is created by a statute that expressly provides otherwise.” A “possessory lien” secures payment “for services or materials furnished with respect to goods by a person in the ordinary course of the person’s business,” is “created by statute or rule of law,” and its “effectiveness depends on the person’s possession” (§ 9-333(a)).
  • Federal tax lien: even a filed federal tax lien is not valid, as to “tangible personal property subject to a lien under local law securing the reasonable price of the repair or improvement of such property,” against a holder “continuously in possession of such property from the time such lien arose” (26 U.S.C. § 6323(b)(5)).
  • Cape Town: under the U.S. art. 39 declaration, non-consensual rights that have priority under U.S. law “shall to that extent have priority over a registered international interest.”
  • Federal recording overlay: an aircraft lien notice that is not filed with the FAA is exposed to the philko-aviation-v-shacket-1983 rule (49 U.S.C. § 44108(a)), which is why several state statutes direct or permit filing with the FAA Aircraft Registry. Michigan’s aircraft garage keeper lien (MCL 259.205) gives the repair portion priority “over all other liens upon the aircraft,” allows detention for 90 days after the last labor or supplies, and supplies no sale procedure: sale requires judgment and execution, where the buyer takes the debtor’s interest. See michigan 12.3.
  • But some aircraft-lien statutes subordinate themselves expressly (Arizona, Rhode Island, below), which takes them outside § 9-333(b)‘s default.

3. State aircraft-lien statutes (retrieved)

StateWho has the lienPossession / filingSale without a court?Priority vs. prior recorded interests
texas — Tex. Prop. Code §§ 70.301–70.307”A person who stores, fuels, repairs, or performs maintenance work on an aircraft” for the contract amount or reasonable compensation; storage contracts only if written or oral for at least 30 days (§ 70.301)May retain possession until paid; if possession relinquished, may retake under Bus. & Com. Code § 9.609, but not from a bona fide purchaser for value without knowledge before the lien is recorded (§ 70.302); may record with the FAA Aircraft Registry within 180 days (U.S.-registered) (§ 70.303) or with the Secretary of State for foreign/unregistered aircraft (§ 70.3031)Yes. Within 60 days, a lienholder in possession must notify the registered owner and each FAA-/SOS-record lienholder by certified or registered mail, stating among other things “the legal right … to sell the aircraft at public auction” (§ 70.304); if unpaid after the 90th day, the lienholder “may sell the aircraft at a public sale and apply the proceeds,” paying excess to the person entitled (§ 70.305)Subchapter D states no priority rule, so the possessory lien takes the Bus. & Com. Code § 9.333(b) default; retaking after relinquishment is not good against a bona fide purchaser who bought before recording (§ 70.302). The statute states no buyer-title or discharge rule (needs_verification; see texas 12.3)
florida — Fla. Stat. §§ 329.01, 329.41, 329.51, 713.58; § 85.031Labor or services lien on personal property (§ 713.58); fuel lien, possession not required (§ 329.41)County verified notice within 90 days under §329.51; possession not required to perfect, but priority and §329.01 obligations remain separate. Section329.01 preserves validity against the maker, heirs/devisees and persons with actual notice before FAA recording. Apply 49USC44108 and its exceptions; unrecorded does not mean invalid against every third party.Conditional repair route established. Section85.031(2)permits the entrusted/completed/unclaimed/unpaid repair article’s public cash auction after three months with ten-day posting in three public places. florida-jv-air-maintenance-v-westwind-2019 requires return on the owner’s demand after three months; perfected lien survival is separate. Fuel-only/pure-rent self-help is not inferred from329.51; judicial alternatives remainSection329.51does not determine competing priority. florida-first-national-commerce-v-indiana-national-bank-1978 preserves the unnotified FAA-recorded lender after an actual repair auction. Current statutory/federal perfection and priority require separate application; no universal clean-title claim
arizona — A.R.S. §§ 33-1022, 33-1023Garage/repair/service-station aircraft lien for labor, materials, supplies and storage at charges agreed with the owner (§ 33-1022(A))Released possession: county recording within thirty days; county-only recording does not bind an aircraft purchaser without actual notice unless also FAA-recorded (§ 33-1022(C)–(D))Possessory: yes. Possession must continue twenty days after charges accrue unpaid. The in-county owner then receives a ten-day demand; the statute expressly dispenses with that demand for an out-of-county resident. Public auction requires five-day sale notice to an owner who can be found, otherwise two county-newspaper publications (§ 33-1023). Recorded nonpossessory lien: court foreclosure only (§ 33-1022(D)).Earlier record lien/conditional sale is not impaired absent that lienor/vendor’s knowledge and consent to furnishing (§ 33-1022(B)); priority and notice are not a universal lien-discharge rule.
rhode-island — R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 34-47-1 to 34-47-4; 34-35-1, 34-35-5Public landing, parking, storage and tie-down providers (incl. the state) (§ 34-47-1); repairers (§ 34-47-2)Verified statement must be filed “in the office of the federal aviation administration aircraft registry” within 60 days after last furnishing, or the lien is waived; the lien does not attach after purchase by an innocent purchaser for value in possession unless filed first or written notice was given (§ 34-47-3)No — court order. Enforced under chapter 34-35 (§ 34-47-4): after 30 days’ written demand, the lienor “may apply for an order for the sale of the property … by civil action in the superior court” (§ 34-35-1); surplus paid into the court registry for the owner (§ 34-35-5)“Any lien created by this chapter does not take priority over any and all prior liens which have been duly recorded and perfected” (§ 34-47-4)
north-carolina — G.S.44A, Article5Owner-request labor/skill/material/storage lien under44A-55; not the aircraft-excluding general44A-2(a) lienPerfection from commencement; possession may be surrendered, with county-clerk notice within120days of surrender under44A-60Sections44A-85/44A-4 govern enforcement and44A-5 proceeds. The LIENOR’s contrary-statement period becomes30days rather than three; this does not extend the owner’s hearing-request window. Judicial-demand/clerk exceptions remainSection44A-70 supplies statutory priority;44A-90 gives a compliance bill of sale and title free only of interests outranked. Federal recording/aircraft-object limitations remain separate; no automatic universal FAA-lien discharge

California follow-up, 2026-10-17. Actual official code/export bodies for Code of Civil Procedure, not Civil Code, §§ 1208.61–1208.70 were retrieved in the California review. martin-v-heady-1980 invalidated the nonconsensual aircraft self-help auction; possession, actual notice and failure to redeem did not make that sale valid. Do not offer this printed auction procedure as an operative shortcut. A separate recorded repair-lien/judicial regime in Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 9798.1–9798.4 requires its own creation, FAA filing and judgment process. Its repair-claimant ranking is not universal priority over preexisting lenders. See california for exact current provisions and the remaining priority/disposal questions. The full primary bodies were recovered without bypassing the interactive site’s challenge; the old failure is historical.

Oklahoma follow-up: full Title 42 §§ 91/91A and blue-sky-telluride-v-intercontinental-jet-service-2014 establish the general-service route and that decision’s FAA-recording/then-statutory limits; the remand did not establish the repairer’s eventual entitlement. The distinct municipality’s lien for airport-related repairs, improvements, storage or care is 3 O.S. § 65.6. It is enforceable as provided by law, not an invented freestanding nonjudicial title-clearing auction. See oklahoma for current priority, notice, enforcement and federal-recording conditions.

Alaska follow-up, October18,2026. AS02.15.100 adopts generally allowed repair/improvement/storage/care lien rights for state airport operators; the applicable AS34.35.175/.180/.220 grants do not become separate aircraft-specific creations. Rural 17AAC45.115/.710 and international 17AAC42.115 supply distinct impoundment/abandonment disposal. State transfer is not universal discharge of federal recorded interests; alaska separately maps FAA ownership and recording requirements.

4. Airport sales and disposals of abandoned aircraft

AuthorityTriggerProcedureTitle result
washington — RCW 14.08.122Airport operator’s adopted regulations; aircraft secured (chains, locks) for unpaid airport charges after notice; “conclusively presumed to have been abandoned” if not released within 90 days after notice, or 90 days after the operator secures it (subsec. (1), (4)(a))At least20days’ registered-mail notice to a known statutory owner, including FAA-recorded lienholders under14.08.015(4), plus one newspaper publication more than ten and less than twenty days before sale; notice states the operator “may bid all or part of its airport charges”; owner may sue in superior court within 10 days of the original notice to contest (subsec. (4)(b)–(c))“Public sale … to the highest and best bidder for cash”; proceeds first to airport charges; balance to the Department of Revenue in trust one year “for the owner or owners and lienholders,” interpleaded if liens appear; if no buyer, “title to the aircraft shall revert to the airport operator” (subsec. (4), (4)(d)–(e)). Enforceable only if the tariff/regulations are posted, included in written contracts, and duly adopted (subsec. (5))
texas — Tex. Transp. Code § 22.901Local government unable to determine ownership of an aircraft at its airport for more than 90 days, after notice in the manner of Transp. Code § 683.012 and contacting the FAA (subsec. (a))Petition to district court; hearing; further notice/evidence; no further action until the 60th day after hearing (subsec. (b)–(c))Court “shall declare the aircraft as abandoned property, and … give title to the aircraft to the local government,” which disposes of it as “salvage or surplus property”; fees against the owner preserved (subsec. (d), (f)). Lien survival in that later surplus sale is not stated (needs_verification); chapter 683’s express free-and-clear rule does not carry over to this court-declaration route (texas 12.2)

FAA airport-compliance guidance. FAA Order 5190.6C, Airport Compliance Manual (2/20/2026), para. 11.6, lists as an example of a sponsor’s reasonable self-service rules “(f) Setting time limits on the open storage of nonairworthy aircraft, wreckage, and major components.” The Order was searched for “abandoned aircraft,” “derelict,” and “lien” and contains no procedure for disposing of abandoned aircraft; disposal authority therefore comes from state and local law. (https://www.faa.gov/airports/resources/publications/orders/compliance_5190_6/order-5190-6c-compliance-complete , retrieved 2026-10-16.)

5. What survives a non-judicial sale — summary

InterestUCC sale by secured partyPossessory lien saleAirport abandoned-aircraft sale
Interest being enforcedDischarged (§ 9-617(a)(2))Satisfied from proceedsSatisfied from proceeds
Junior/subordinate security interests and liensDischarged (§ 9-617(a)(3))Statute-specific — needs_verificationWashington: authorized ownership passes under14.08.122; an in-scope private security interest continues under62A.9A-315unless released/authorized or an actual applicable discharge rule displaces it. Surplus/interpleader alone does not purge it; see conditional analysis below.
Senior FAA-recorded interestsSurvive (only subordinate interests are discharged)Survive where the statute subordinates the lien (A.R.S. § 33-1022(B); R.I. § 34-47-4)Washington: FAA-recorded holder is a statutory notice recipient; registration/new title alone is no release. Apply actual priority, release and binding foreclosure effect, not blanket airport-sale purge.
Registered international interests (Cape Town objects)Survive if registered ahead (Aircraft Protocol art. XIV(2), replacing Convention art. 29(3) for aircraft objects)Survive unless the lien has priority under U.S. law (U.S. art. 39 declaration)Same
Federal tax lienSurvives if it has priority (filed before the enforced interest arose, subject to § 6323 protections)Possessory repair lienor in continuous possession has priority (§ 6323(b)(5))Washington:7425requires its actual joinder/nonjudicial notice and local-discharge conditions; notice alone does not create priority.120-day IRS redemption is realty-only.
Separately owned/financed enginesNot conveyed if not the debtor’s (Protocol art. XIV(3); § 9-617(a)(1) conveys only “the debtor’s rights”)SameSame

▸ For Buyers / Operators. In a lienholder’s sale the buyer underwrites the seller’s compliance: the statute cited, the notice letters (certified mail receipts, publications), the timing (e.g., Texas 60-day notice / 90-day sale; Arizona’s twenty-day possession and county-residence-dependent demand, followed by its separate sale notice), and whether the lien was possessory at the time of sale. Those are the same items the FAA asks for (AC 8050-94, item 15). Senior recorded liens generally ride through.

▸ For Owners / Debtors. Each statute sets its own notice and contest window — e.g., a Washington owner may sue within 10 days of the impound notice and recover the aircraft by posting a bond (RCW 14.08.122(3), (4)(c)); a Florida lienee may release property by filing a cash or surety bond with the circuit clerk (Fla. Stat. § 713.76(1)); surplus provisions are summarized above.

Needs verification

Virginia recordation boundary. Section43-34.1 prints sworn SCC/FAA filings within120days, but §55.1-409 removes further Commonwealth recordation for FAA-recorded U.S.-civil-aircraft instruments. gold-key-aviation-v-international-jet-charter-2001 applies the predecessor statute and rejects an invariably possessory reading of43-32. That historical circuit-court opinion is not comprehensive appellate clearance or authority for every foreclosure sale. See virginia for the actual filing/priority gaps.

  • Texas: the buyer’s title after a Chapter 70 Subchapter D sale, and its effect on an earlier FAA-recorded security interest (the statute states no buyer-title or discharge rule; the possessory lien’s rank follows the § 9.333(b) default — see texas 12.3); lien survival in a § 22.901 surplus disposal.
  • Florida: florida now supplies the conditional entrusted-repair/judicial, fuel and warehouse alternatives, competing-interest and defect rules. Pure hangar rent is not an independently proved lien or private-auction power.
  • California Code of Civil Procedure §§1208.61–1208.70: see the constitutional and separate recorded-lien distinctions above, not an unstarted source search.
  • Whether a lienholder’s sale under any of these statutes discharges junior FAA-recorded liens, and how the FAA treats those liens on the record after the sale.
  • State enactments of UCC §§ 9-609–9-617 (non-uniform amendments).

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Colorado — nonuniform priority and actual airport liens

Colorado’s enacted § 4-9-333(b) requires an express statutory priority grant for the described possessory lien preference. Do not transplant the uniform automatic priority to aircraft repair or hangar storage under §§ 38-20-105/106. The current Title 41, §§ 41-4-106/204, does grant county/municipal airport charge liens; “no airport-specific lien” is not an accurate summary. The grants do not establish every enforcement procedure or federal discharge. Title 43, §§ 43-10-111/114 addresses federal registration and the specified fuel tax in lieu of aircraft personal-property tax, not exemption from every aircraft/sales tax. See colorado.

Connecticut — actual 2026 appellate scope

snm-ii-v-tango-yankee-2026 verifies the March 17, 2026 legal-possessor- request holding from the full sixteen-page opinion, not discharge of unpaid lenders. Its reserved notice/conversion/causation issues must remain distinct. Section 15-75 incorporates qualifying existing state repair/storage/care liens; it is not an independent universal airport-charge lien. Section 15-76’s hangar and official-custody expenses and §§ 49-92g/h aircraft repair are separately accounted in connecticut, including unresolved purchaser-interest questions.

Louisiana — state privilege and separate federal acceptance

R.S. 9:4511 and 4513 distinguish repair/fuel from aircraft storage. Section 4512 requires the specified verified parish notice as well as addressing FAA filing; its priority turns on earlier recorded interests before work commenced, not simply which notice was filed first. Its retained-aircraft private-sale route requires more than 90 days unpaid from the last labor/fuel/materials and 10 days’ judicial-movable-style advertising; § 4513(B) gives the storage holder identical remedies, including that private sale. The statute requires no separate lender notice (recordation of the privilege notice is notice to purchasers, § 4512(A)(4)), and owner surplus is held six months, then paid to the parish clerk of court. A universal discharge of senior financing is not in the text. State sale authority and FAA acceptance are separate: recording a claimed lien does not itself validate foreclosure or clear senior financing. See louisiana for actual statutory text and packet limits.

Pennsylvania — the general artisan regime and a separate FAA question

aircraft-repair-services-v-stambaugh-pa-1999 applies Pennsylvania’s actual common-law repair lien; aircraft/equipment branches are not fictitious separate statutory types. williamsport-national-bank-v-shrey-pa-1992 and current § 9333 support qualifying state repair priority, not a universal FAA priority or auction-discharge result. The recovered 1925 Act 300 does not eliminate the current hearing/constitutional and purchaser-interest questions. The FAA manual’s nonjudicial-sale evidence and artisan-claim handling are distinct from a repossession security agreement; Pennsylvania’s absence from its state table is not proof that no valid common-law lien or local filing can exist. See pennsylvania for the actual retrieved manual, its uncontrolled-copy/currentness limit and unresolved federal/title questions.

Separate purchase tax: enacted TRC § 204(68)–(69) provides rotorcraft/simulator and aircraft-component/service exemptions; conflicting older regulatory examples are not the current complete answer. That is not a universal tax exemption for every fixed-wing sheriff sale.

Indiana — named recorded-lien and airport routes are judicial

The official 2026 IC32-33-10-8 recorded-lien remedy and IC32-33-10.5-7 abandoned-airport route require court proceedings; a private mechanic auction is not inferred from filing a notice. These are the specified statutory routes, not a claim that every consensual Article9disposition requires a court. FAA registration acceptance is distinct from state/federal priority. indiana 12.3 reads these sections in the official 2026 Indiana Code and identifies the forms.

Illinois — county recorder, distinct sale routes and retained lenders

770ILCS45/2 requires county-recorder filing within60days after delivery back for its surrendered-possession lien. The sheriff45/6and qualifying90/3public-sale routes are distinct. 45/4 subordinates to its specified prior recorded lender; do not apply an assumed uniform possessory-priority rule to erase that express provision. travel-express-aviation-v-bridgeview-bank-illinois-2011 concerns the bank’s Article9discharge and expressly leaves the FAA-only-validity question undecided. The posted FAA manual’s filing examples do not amend Illinois’s office or certify the current master copy. See illinois for the actual statutory/FAA source bounds and conditional purchaser rules.

Wisconsin — the released-possession clock runs from furnishing

Section779.413(3) allows its sworn notice/recording steps within 180days after the specified repairs, storage, services, supplies or other covered items are furnished, not180days after surrender. Notice reaches the registered owner and recorded interest holders for the specified FAA-recordable collateral; the statute provides alternative destinations for non-U.S./nonrecordable collateral. State-law superiority, statutory enforcement and federal recordation/priority are distinct; a stated state priority is not itself proof of federal buyer discharge. See wisconsin for the exact collateral/filing predicates.

South Carolina — aircraft services use the incorporated court route

Section 29-15-100 requires the sworn county filing within ninety days after furnishing the covered service, supplies or indemnity. Subsection(b) incorporates §§ 29-9-50 through -80, including a petition in Common Pleas, not a universal §29-15-10 magistrate repair auction. County filing, federal recording/validity and substantive priority are distinct. The historical Powers chronology and 1995 Attorney General analysis do not override applicable express ranks or §36-9-333’s qualifying retained-possession service-lien priority. See south-carolina for the actual possession, filing and federal-source boundaries.

Minnesota — released-possession filing and airport liens differ

Section514.221 requires the verified statement in the appropriate UCC filing office within ninety days after the work/materials, with the specified foreclosure proceedings instituted within one year after filing. This is distinct from retained- possession remedies. State priority and purchaser-before-filing exceptions do not eliminate separate federal recording/validity requirements.

The state-airport charge lien under §360.021 subd.6 differs from §360.64’s annual-tax first lien. Repealed §511.274 is not current abandoned-aircraft auction authority; the actual chapters345/471.195 routes require their own predicates. See minnesota for the precise grants, sale channels and FAA boundaries.

Kentucky — express aircraft inclusion and reasonable charges

Section376.281 expressly includes aircraft in §§376.270/.280; this is not an inference from the separate vessel definition. airrich-v-fortener-aviation-2016 upheld the communicated prospective hangar charges but not unagreed retroactive rent; stanfield-body-shop-v-bruner-2022 supplies a separately labelled unpublished inspection/storage application, not unrestricted precedential clearance. These are charge/retention holdings, not federal recordation or buyer-title decisions. The statutory possession/filing and sale branches must be read with current UCC priority and FAA rules; see kentucky.

Nevada — prescribed notice is not an invented recorder packet

Chapter108 provides the actual aircraft owner-service/substitute-clerk requirements and sale rules; do not require a universally named county-recorder form that §108.272does not prescribe. State attachment/priority is distinct from federal recordability and discharge. nevada compares the actual federal Code release119-121with the2025annual CFR and later Federal Register changes; a prior error page is not a recovered statute, and federal recording does not adjudicate every state priority dispute.

Washington — airport sale power is not a universal hangar lien

RCW14.08.122’s adopted-rule remedy is not itself a newly created private hangar lien. Actual King County Title15contains separate airport-fee and removal/storage grants; a lapsed2025fee proposal is not an enacted amendment. The statute’s publication endpoints are excluded: more than ten, less than twenty days. Owner sale mail is at least twenty days; the lawsuit clock is ten days from subsection(1)‘s notification, not from whichever later notice is most convenient. See washington for the actual local grants, tariff/adoption predicates and conditional state/federal buyer-title and surviving-interest rules, not a promise to erase every senior lender.

Washington’s 14.08.015(4)/.122 includes FAA-recorded lienholders in its owner-notice definition. Existing in-scope private security continues under 62A.9A-315 unless an actual authorization, release or applicable discharge rule intervenes; the airport’s ownership-transfer/proceeds power is not by itself a federal or universal private-lien purge. The government-vendor/borrower distinction in Brazier remains relevant, not an all-government-sale exclusion. 26USC7425 is an expressly unofficial Cornell reproduction; its notice/joinder and local-discharge rules apply independently and120-day redemption is realty-only.

Missouri — airport abandonment is an actual statutory channel

305.800–305.810 establish an airport abandoned/derelict-aircraft procedure, not an absence of state law. Filing-time priority, receipt/posting and sale-notice clocks are separate. 305.810 divests other legal/equitable interests only if their holders received the required notice; controlling federal rights still require separate analysis. The superintendent may issue disposition documents. This is distinct from 430.082’s repair lien:430.082expressly includes aircraft and conditionally requires lien title before430.100sale proceedings. A lawful aircraft lien-sale buyer uses the authorized seller’s compliant local-law bill of sale under14CFR47.11(c); FAA registration is not an ownership certificate under47.5(c). The downloaded DOR1062vehicle/watercraft packet’s omission of aircraft neither repeals the grant nor proves acceptance of that packet for an aircraft. missouri supplies this conditional rule without inventing a conflicting holding or promising acceptance of a particular application.

Mississippi — repair and airport liens are distinct

Qualifying aircraft repair falls within general § 85-7-101 and its actual court special-sale route, not a newly invented aircraft-specific grant. Historical full Title 61 separately supplies airport-authority § 61-3-24 and municipal-airport § 61-5-27 grants; Title 85 supplies general repair.

The authority’s nonresident sequestration, exigency/hearing and 125% bond conditions do not create automatic abandoned-aircraft auction authority. Its nonpossessory fleet-charge lien priority against an earlier perfected/ FAA-recorded lender or separate lessor remains one precise legal ambiguity; ordinary possession-based § 9-333 priority is not automatically applicable. See mississippi for checked later enactments, actual grant profiles and bounded source/currentness limits.

New Hampshire — aircraft branches are not new lien grants

RSA450:1–3 expressly covers aircraft storage and repair under the separate grants. Its incorporated RSA444 procedure and actual possessory-priority predicates govern; an aircraft asset label does not create another lien or a blanket federal-recorded-lender discharge. FAA ownership and recordation acceptance require their own evidence rather than a state vehicle title packet. new-hampshire distinguishes the actual current federal statute release, retained regulatory bodies and the specific documents that could not be downloaded. A federal filing is not itself a complete state-law priority opinion.

New Mexico — aircraft enforcement is judicial

Section48-3-29 supplies the actual judicial aircraft-lien enforcement route, not an imported private vehicle-repair auction. The retained complete official Chapter48 body is identified with current access and later-enactment limits in new-mexico; the current normal origin refusal was not bypassed or called a new successful download. Federal ownership/recordation evidence and surviving interests remain separate from the state judgment and title paperwork.

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Disclaimer. This page is legal information, not legal advice. It is a general summary of state and federal law that may be incomplete or out of date; lien statutes change and their application is fact-specific. Nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship. Verify every statute against the current primary source and consult a licensed attorney before acting.

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