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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Aerofab Inc LAKE 250
N8551D is an Aerofab Inc LAKE 250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lafayette, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 6, 1993.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerofab Inc
- Model
- LAKE 250 · all LAKE 250s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Aerofab Inc LAKE 250 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 125
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABBC6A (octal 52736152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 6, 1993
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00595121
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cordingley Robert L II
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2838 Falcon Pt
Lafayette, CO 80026-9061
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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
Connections how N8551D links to the rest of the register
- Aerofab Inc LAKE 250 24 registered
- Aerofab Inc 59 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Lafayette, CO 40 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,484 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aerofab Inc LAKE 250 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Aerofab Inc LAKE 250 9 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8551D, 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 Cordingley Robert L II, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. 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 125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8551D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-160 (serial 22-5783, cancelled January 5, 1971). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8551D. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data