{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2023-03-15","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-02-06","city":"CEDAR CREST","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":60,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-02-24","maker":"Schleicher","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHLEICHER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3801545","mode_s_code":"50041331","mode_s_hex":"A042D9","model":"KA 6 E","n_number":"N116DS","name":"STEVENSON MALCOLM D JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N116DS is a Schleicher KA 6 E, a glider with no engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Cedar Crest, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 15, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Stevenson Malcolm D JR, an individual, certificate issued February 6, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 15, 2023, 38 years after the 1985 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6025 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N116DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ercoupe 415-C (serial 658, cancelled July 20, 2017). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N116DS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"6025","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"34 MULBERRY LOOP","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01383706","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N116DS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1985,"zip":"870089439"}