Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4-200
N8003H is a Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4-200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Port Orchard, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 22, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 14, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated Aeronautics Inc.
- Model
- LAKE LA-4-200 · all LAKE LA-4-200s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1012
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AAE4A6 (octal 52562246)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 22, 2013
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 14, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00840702
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shafer James H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2307 Steamboat Loop E
Port Orchard, WA 98366-4833
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8003H, 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 Shafer James H, an individual, certificate issued March 22, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8003H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: All American 10A (serial 3, cancelled October 5, 1955). 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 N8003H: Accident on June 24, 1984 at Mears, MI: minor 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-4-200 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI84LA258 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data