Aerofab Inc LAKE LA-4-250
N1400P is an Aerofab Inc LAKE LA-4-250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saint James, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 1, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerofab Inc
- Model
- LAKE LA-4-250
- Serial number
- 3
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A0A516 (octal 50122426)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 1, 1983
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00242152
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Melanie Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1137 10Th St N
Saint James, MN 56081-2030
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1400P, 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 Johnson Melanie Trustee, an individual, certificate issued January 22, 2020, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 1, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1400P 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 N1400P: Accident on July 28, 2017 at Oshkosh, WI: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerofab INC LAKE LA 4 250 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to properly configure the airplane for takeoff and his decision to takeoff with a tailwind in unfavorable water conditions, which resulted in the airplane entering an aerodynamic stall and the pilot losing control.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data