Bauer Lawrence PA-18 REPLICA
N2659Y is a Bauer Lawrence PA-18 REPLICA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2018 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bauer Lawrence
- Model
- PA-18 REPLICA
- Serial number
- LB-15
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A2953A (octal 50512472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2018
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 25, 2003
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00039399
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bauer Lawrence L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4114 Grand River Ct
Grand Rapids, MI 49525
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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 N2659Y, 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 Bauer Lawrence L, an individual, certificate issued May 8, 2018, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LB-15 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2659Y 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 N2659Y. 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