{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2015-04-10","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-01-08","city":"TUCSON","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"01403","engine_horsepower":80,"engine_maker":"AEROVEE","engine_model":"2.0","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-04-28","maker":"Kurian Ray","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"KURIAN RAY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056331H","mode_s_code":"50037435","mode_s_hex":"A03F1D","model":"SONEX","n_number":"N115DM","name":"KURIAN RAY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CASA GRANDE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1992-05-10","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX92LA235","probable_cause":"FUEL STARVATION DUE TO THE PILOT'S MISREADING OF A NEWLY INSTALLED FUEL SELECTOR PANEL WITH PLACARDS AND A POSITION POINTER WHICH WERE CONFUSING. FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT WERE THE CONFUSING NATURE OF THE FUEL PANEL AND PLACARD DESIGN AND THE SCHOOL BUS WHICH SUDDENLY TURNED IN FRONT OF THE LANDING AIRCRAFT.","registration":"N115DM","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on May 10, 1992 at Casa Grande, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"CASA GRANDE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1992-04-10","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX92LA176","probable_cause":"A FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO SELECT THE PROPER FUEL TANK AND SUBSEQUENT FUEL STARVATION.  CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS AN INADEQUATE DESIGN BY THE MANUFACTURER THAT PERMITTED THE FUEL SELECTOR TO BE ROTATED 360 DEGREES, AND THE PILOT'S LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH THE AIRPLANE.","registration":"N115DM","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on April 10, 1992 at Casa Grande, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N115DM is a Kurian Ray SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 10, 2015.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kurian Ray, an individual, certificate issued January 8, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 10, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 612 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N115DM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcewen Dick GLASAIR III (serial 3029, cancelled June 4, 2007). 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":"2 NTSB records under N115DM: Accident on May 10, 1992 at Casa Grande, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 10, 1992 at Casa Grande, AZ: 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"612","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6725 W HOMEBROOK LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01168609","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N115DM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2015,"zip":"857571100"}