Buhl LA-1
N320Y is a Buhl LA-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mansfield, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 20, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buhl
- Model
- LA-1 · all LA-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 108
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A37076 (octal 50670166)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 20, 1960
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00181713
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lootens Charles W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2635 Touby Rd
Mansfield, OH 44903-6903
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.
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The public federal record on N320Y, 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 Lootens Charles W, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 1960, 29 years after the 1931 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 108 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N320Y 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 N320Y: Accident on October 16, 1986 at Belleview, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Buhl LA-1 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA87LA010 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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