Lauton Robert RAF 2000
N48RL is a Lauton Robert RAF 2000, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dallas Center, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 2, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lauton Robert
- Model
- RAF 2000
- Serial number
- 42-95-6-185
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A5E7C2 (octal 51363702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 27, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 2, 1996
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00035781
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thomas Michael D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 24572 N Ave
Dallas Center, IA 50063-8352
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N48RL, 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 Thomas Michael D, an individual, certificate issued March 27, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42-95-6-185 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48RL 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 N48RL. 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