Lake LA-4-200
N1048L is a Lake LA-4-200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hawley, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 1986 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 3, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lake
- Model
- LA-4-200 · all LA-4-200s and related versions
- Serial number
- 641
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 91 mph
- Transponder code
- A0170B (octal 50013413)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 1986
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 3, 1974
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00820310
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sparrow Thomas E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- Box 66
Hawley, MN 56549
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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N1048L, 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.
Valid registration to Sparrow Thomas E, an individual, certificate issued August 13, 1986, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 3, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 641 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1048L according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1048L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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