Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B
N62DF is an Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in De Soto, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 24, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A-1B · all A-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2268
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A81435 (octal 52012065)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 24, 2004
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00094069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buffkin Peter E JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8560 Oak Country Ln
De Soto, KS 66018-8397
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N62DF, 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 Buffkin Peter E JR, an individual, certificate issued May 28, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 24, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2268 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N62DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1643, cancelled August 4, 2000). 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 N62DF: Accident on January 30, 2000 at Hana, Maui, HI: serious 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: Robinson R22B · operated under 091
The student's failure to maintain directional control after encountering a tail rotor vortex ring state induced right yaw.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX00LA089 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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