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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Lake LA-4-200
N1056L 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 co-owned owners in Denton, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 15, 1974.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lake
- Model
- LA-4-200 · all LA-4-200s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Lake LA-4 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 649
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 91 mph
- Transponder code
- A01A7C (octal 50015174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 24, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 15, 1974
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00930450
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fahey Christopher S
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 205 N 6Th St
Denton, MD 21629-1111 - Co-owners
- Williams Russell D
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.
Connections how N1056L links to the rest of the register
- Lake LA-4 137 registered
- Lake 137 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B 52 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Denton, MD 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Maryland 2,344 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Lake LA-4 39 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-A1B 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-A1B 33 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N1056L, 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 Fahey Christopher S, a co-owned, certificate issued May 24, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 15, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 649 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1056L 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]
1 NTSB record under N1056L: Accident on August 1, 2004 at Oshkosh, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lake LA4-200 · operated under 091
The unsuitable rough water conditions encountered during the attempted water takeoff.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data