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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Lake LA-4-200
N70JX 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 Runway Optional LLC, an LLC in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 21, 2020. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lake
- Model
- LA-4-200 · all LA-4-200s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Lake LA-4 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 545
- 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 · Lycoming IO-360-A1B · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 91 mph
- Transponder code
- A95313 (octal 52251423)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 21, 2020
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01174485
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Runway Optional LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 116 S Vine St Ste B
Fergus Falls, MN 56537-2526
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 1
Connections how N70JX links to the rest of the register
- Lake LA-4 137 registered
- Lake 137 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B 52 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Runway Optional LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Fergus Falls, MN 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Fergus Falls Regional · FFM
- Minnesota 6,939 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Lake LA-4 39 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-A1B 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-A1B 33 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N70JX, 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 Runway Optional LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 6, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 21, 2020, 47 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 545 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N70JX according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 13, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N70JX. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data