Leichty Lavern D LA2
N816A is a Leichty Lavern D LA2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ligonier, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Leichty Lavern D
- Model
- LA2
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- AB1FA6 (octal 52617646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2009
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 8, 2009
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01033362
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Leichty Lavern D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12210 County Road 148
Ligonier, IN 46767-9408
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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
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The public federal record on N816A, 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 Leichty Lavern D, an individual, certificate issued June 12, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N816A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22 (serial 22-120, cancelled July 2, 2001). 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 N816A: Accident on February 27, 1983 at Lajitas, TX: 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: Piper PA-22-125 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW83LA163 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