Toms Christopher Robin LANCAIR IV
N83JF is a Toms Christopher Robin LANCAIR IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Orcas, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2000 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 17, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Toms Christopher Robin
- Model
- LANCAIR IV
- Serial number
- LIV 192
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- AB56CF (octal 52653317)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2000
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 17, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00275980
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Forker John S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 272
Orcas, WA 98280-0272
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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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N83JF, 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 Forker John S, an individual, certificate issued August 23, 2000, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 17, 2001, 6 years after the 1995 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 LIV 192 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N83JF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32RT-300 (serial 32R7985023, cancelled August 13, 1996). 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 N83JF: Accident on March 13, 1994 at Harbor Springs, MI: minor injuries, destroyed. 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-32RT-300 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER DECISION TO CONTINUE FLIGHT INTO ICING CONDITIONS AFTER THE CONDITIONS WERE FIRST ENCOUNTERED. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE TREES CONTACTED DURING THE LANDING ROLL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI94LA104 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