Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4-200
N8543H is a Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4-200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 18, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated Aeronautics Inc.
- Model
- LAKE LA-4-200 · all LAKE LA-4-200s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1105
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1984
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- ABB8FD (octal 52734375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 18, 1986
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00671614
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Porterfield Brian B
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3627 N Edgewater Dr
Wasilla, AK 99623-9257 - Co-owners
- Porterfield Alberta W
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8543H, 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 Porterfield Brian B, a co-owned, certificate issued October 21, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 18, 1986, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8543H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: North American NAVION (serial NAV-4-548, cancelled January 26, 1951). 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 N8543H: Accident on July 18, 2010 at Skwentna, AK: serious 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: Consolidated Aeronautics INC. LAKE LA-4-200 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate flare, which resulted in a nose-low impact with glassy water and a subsequent nose-over. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's diverted attention while landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC10LA062 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