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N543K

Great Lakes 2T-1A

Valid Colorado

N543K is a Great Lakes 2T-1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Delta, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 15, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 7, 1962.

Aircraft

Maker
Great Lakes
Model
2T-1A · all 2T-1As and related versions
Serial number
49
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Menasco PIRATE C4 D4 · 125 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A6E3F2 (octal 51561762)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 15, 2024
Expires
October 31, 2031
Last FAA action
October 15, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · June 7, 1962
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00333105

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Thoensen Thomas R
Type
Individual
Address
1159 Mustang Ln
Delta, CO 81416-9142

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N543K, 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 Thoensen Thomas R, an individual, certificate issued October 15, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N543K according to the deregistered file. [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 N543K. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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