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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Lake LA-4-200
N3RQ is a Lake LA-4-200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Air Carriage INC, a corporation in Chico, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1972.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lake
- Model
- LA-4-200 · all LA-4-200s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Lake LA-4 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 523
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 91 mph
- Transponder code
- A31C26 (octal 50616046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 20, 2020
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 31, 1972
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00230983
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Carriage INC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 100 Piper Ave Hngr 1
Chico, CA 95973-9060
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N3RQ links to the rest of the register
- Lake LA-4 137 registered
- Lake 137 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,562 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Air Carriage INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Chico, CA 158 aircraft registered in this town
- Chico Regional · CIC
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Lake LA-4 39 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N3RQ, 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 Air Carriage INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 20, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 523 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3RQ 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 N3RQ. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data