{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2014-11-22","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-11-10","city":"VALDOSTA","country_code":"US","county_code":"185","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-01","maker":"William M Clapp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"WILLIAM M CLAPP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05633X7","mode_s_code":"50052527","mode_s_hex":"A05557","model":"CLAPP-SABERWING","n_number":"N120SW","name":"CLAPP WILLIAM M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Valdosta","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-06-11","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ERA24LA258","probable_cause":"The total loss of engine power due to the shearing of the woodruff key that indexed the crankshaft gear and hub assembly to the crankshaft, which resulted in the gear and hub rotating from their indexed position and caused the crankshaft-to-camshaft timing to become misaligned.","registration":"N120SW","state":"GA","summary":"Accident on June 11, 2024 at Valdosta, GA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N120SW is a William M Clapp CLAPP-SABERWING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Valdosta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 22, 2014.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Clapp William M, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 22, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CLAPP04 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N120SW 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 N120SW: Accident on June 11, 2024 at Valdosta, GA: serious 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"CLAPP04","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3913 ROWELL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01162944","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N120SW","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2014,"zip":"316060631"}