Lake LA-4
N7628L is a Lake LA-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aerial Serveys INC, a non-citizen corporation in Post Falls, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for forest, dated May 22, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lake
- Model
- LA-4 · all LA-4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 401
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 91 mph
- Transponder code
- AA4C71 (octal 52446161)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 7, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Forest · May 22, 2002
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00463227
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerial Serveys INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 784 S Clearwater Loop Ste R
Post Falls, ID 83854-9599
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.
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The public federal record on N7628L, 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 Aerial Serveys INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued June 7, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 22, 2002, 33 years after the 1969 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 401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7628L 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]
1 NTSB record under N7628L: Accident on July 25, 2017 at Byron, CA: 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 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to activate the hydraulic system during the approach, and his failure to ensure that the landing gear was down and locked before touchdown. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's decision to operate the airplane with an inoperative landing gear position indicator light.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR17LA165 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