Aerofab Inc LAKE 250
N8550U is an Aerofab Inc LAKE 250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Hampton, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 17, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerofab Inc
- Model
- LAKE 250 · all LAKE 250s and related versions
- Serial number
- 122
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- ABBC56 (octal 52736126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2002
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 17, 1991
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00364811
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thompson Peter S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 19 Midnight Run Dr
New Hampton, NH 03256-4314
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 N8550U, 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 Thompson Peter S, an individual, certificate issued February 4, 2002, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 17, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 122 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8550U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172F (serial 17252450, cancelled September 25, 1970). 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 N8550U: Accident on August 17, 2003 at Phippsburg, ME: 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: Aerofab Inc. LAKE 250 · operated under 091
The airplane's collision with a submerged object during a water landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC03LA178 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