Lake LA-4-200
N161L is a Lake LA-4-200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2003 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 11, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lake
- Model
- LA-4-200 · all LA-4-200s and related versions
- Serial number
- 470
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 91 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F65F (octal 50173137)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2003
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 11, 1971
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00970965
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mays Stephen W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4001 Apollo Dr
Carson City, NV 89706-1304
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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 N161L, 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 Mays Stephen W, an individual, certificate issued February 3, 2003, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 11, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 470 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N161L 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 N161L. 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