Lake LA-4-200
N48X is a Lake LA-4-200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anacortes, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 21, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lake
- Model
- LA-4-200 · all LA-4-200s and related versions
- Serial number
- 560
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 91 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E84D (octal 51364115)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 21, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00440784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Becker Lawrence D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9586 Padilla Heights Rd
Anacortes, WA 98221-8699
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N48X, 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 Becker Lawrence D, an individual, certificate issued September 26, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 21, 2005, 32 years after the 1973 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 560 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48X was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Semcraft X-1 GYROCOPTER (serial 001, cancelled November 24, 1972); Bensen B7-M (serial NL-1B, cancelled February 20, 1964). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N48X: Accident on January 17, 2026 at Dewey, WA: 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: Lake LA-4-200 · operated under 091
On January 16, 2026, at 1609 Pacific daylight time, a Lake LA-4-200, N48X sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Dewey, Washington. The flight instructor and student pilot were uninjured. The amphibious airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The flight instructor stated that he was conducting familiarization training with a student. They departed Skagit Regional Airport (BVS), Burlington/Mount Vernon, Washington, and were performing water landings at Lake Campbell, Washington. Upon touching down on the water …
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- 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