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N8001A

Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4-200

Valid Texas

N8001A is a Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4-200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Denton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 28, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Consolidated Aeronautics Inc.
Model
LAKE LA-4-200 · all LAKE LA-4-200s and related versions
Serial number
991
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
AAE459 (octal 52562131)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 14, 2012
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 28, 1979
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00120802

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fandler Frederick E
Type
Individual
Address
4 Hidden Valley Airpark
Denton, TX 76208-7302

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1972-05-11Cessna 170B · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8001A, 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 Fandler Frederick E, an individual, certificate issued September 14, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 28, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 991 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8001A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170B (serial 20853, cancelled May 11, 1972). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8001A. 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 September 30, 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