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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026
N4857

Larson Jerry ZENITH

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWashington

N4857 is a Larson Jerry ZENITH, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nine Mile Falls, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 11, 2010.

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Aircraft

Maker
Larson Jerry
Model
ZENITH
Serial number
4857
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 · Cont Motor C85-12 · 85 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
2
Year built
2010
Transponder code
A5FE79 (octal 51377171)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 4, 2012
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 11, 2010
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01035393

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Thompson Micheal J
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 514
Nine Mile Falls, WA 99026-0514

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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

2007-03-01See J W SE5 · Valid registration
1977-07-07Sikorsky UH-34D · Valid registration

Connections how N4857 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Nine Mile Falls, WA 23 aircraft registered in this town
  • Washington 10,644 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N4857, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Thompson Micheal J, an individual, certificate issued April 4, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 11, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4857 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4857 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: See J W SE5 (serial 4857, cancelled March 1, 2007); Sikorsky UH-34D (serial 149356, cancelled July 7, 1977). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4857. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data