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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Aerofab LA-4
N1170L is an Aerofab LA-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sweet Aviation LLC, an LLC in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 16, 1966.
Where is it now Last seen October 8 at 9:30 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerofab
- Model
- LA-4
- Serial number
- 332
- 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 O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 91 mph
- Transponder code
- A04897 (octal 50044227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 5, 2023
- 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 · February 16, 1966
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00001240
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sweet Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8 the Green Suite 8208
Dover, DE 19901
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 N1170L links to the rest of the register
- Aerofab 2 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,931 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Sweet Aviation LLC 14 aircraft in the fleet
- Dover, DE 1,043 aircraft registered in this town
- Dover Air Force Base · DOV
- Chandelle Airport · 0N4
- Deldot Helistop · 0N5
- Delaware 10,969 aircraft registered
- Where N1170L is now · Last seen October 8 at 9:30 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1170L.json.
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The public federal record on N1170L, 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 Sweet Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 11, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 332 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1170L 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 N1170L. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data