Waterson Robert L GREAT LAKES 2T-1A-2W
N1697 is a Waterson Robert L GREAT LAKES 2T-1A-2W, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 2 seats. It is registered to R & W Aviation LLC, an LLC in Owasso, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 27, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waterson Robert L
- Model
- GREAT LAKES 2T-1A-2W
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A1166A (octal 50213152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 9, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 27, 1991
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00643682
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- R & W Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16701 E 79Th St N
Owasso, OK 74055-5749
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N1697, 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 R & W Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 9, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 27, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1697 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Smith-Bensen B-8 (serial 127672590, cancelled June 26, 1970); Curtiss JN4D (serial I-573, cancelled January 29, 1929). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1697. 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 September 30, 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