Buhl LA-1
N352Y 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 Elmira, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 1996 and expires on July 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buhl
- Model
- LA-1 · all LA-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 141
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Szekely SR-3-L · 30 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A3EE61 (octal 50767141)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 1996
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00452793
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Evers Melvin D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 158
Elmira, OR 97437-0158
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 N352Y, 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 Evers Melvin D, an individual, certificate issued October 4, 1996, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 141 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N352Y 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 N352Y: Accident on May 3, 2015 at Cottage Grove, OR: minor 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
A loss of engine power on downwind for landing due to carburetor icing, which resulted in a forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR15LA156 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