{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-03-11","city":"ERIE","country_code":"US","county_code":"123","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-21","maker":"Consolidated Aeronautics Inc.","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CONSOLIDATED AERONAUTICS INC.","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2400108","mode_s_code":"52564063","mode_s_hex":"AAE833","model":"LAKE LA-4-200","n_number":"N8012A","name":"NIEHAUS JAMES O","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FOX LAKE","damage":"DEST","date":"1988-09-01","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CHI88LA228","probable_cause":"","registration":"N8012A","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on September 1, 1988 at Fox Lake, IL: minor injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8012A is a Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4-200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Erie, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Niehaus James O, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1065 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8012A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170B (serial 20864, cancelled February 27, 1961). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N8012A: Accident on September 1, 1988 at Fox Lake, IL: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"1065","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2650 S MAIN ST UNIT B4","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00310642","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8012A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"805168156"}