{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2003-05-14","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2002-09-16","city":"PIERCE","country_code":"US","county_code":"139","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59050","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"SUBARU","engine_model":"ALL MDLS A/B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"STODDARD HAMILTON","kit_model":"GLASTAR","last_action_date":"2023-05-12","maker":"Zimmerman Bruce J","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ZIMMERMAN BRUCE J","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05614T7","mode_s_code":"50023124","mode_s_hex":"A02654","model":"GLASTAR","n_number":"N109BZ","name":"ZIMMERMAN BRUCE J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Pierce","damage":"SUBS","date":"2003-06-07","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI03LA152","probable_cause":"The pilot's operation of the airplane with known deficiencies in equipment and his selection of unsuitable terrain for landing.  Factors contributing to this accident were the overtemperature of the engine cooling system, the long grass, and the collapse of the nose landing gear strut.","registration":"N109BZ","state":"NE","summary":"Accident on June 7, 2003 at Pierce, NE: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N109BZ is a Zimmerman Bruce J GLASTAR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pierce, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2002 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 14, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Zimmerman Bruce J, an individual, certificate issued September 16, 2002, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 14, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5782 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N109BZ according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N109BZ: Accident on June 7, 2003 at Pierce, NE: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"5782","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"54335 849 RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00007649","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N109BZ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"687673533"}