{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1981-02-16","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-01-03","city":"FRANKLIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"187","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"01514","engine_horsepower":904,"engine_maker":"AIRESEARCH","engine_model":"TPE331 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-07","maker":"Swearingen","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SWEARINGEN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8780406","mode_s_code":"50052547","mode_s_hex":"A05567","model":"SA226-T(B)","n_number":"N120TM","name":"INTERSTATE AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ELOY","damage":"DEST","date":"1989-10-20","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX90DUJ04","probable_cause":"THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT, AND HIS FAILURE TO DISCONTINUE THE APPROACH WHEN IT BECAME EVIDENT THAT THE GUSTING CROSS WINDS WERE EXCEEDING THE ABILITY OF THE AIRCRAFT.","registration":"N120TM","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on October 20, 1989 at Eloy, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N120TM is a Swearingen SA226-T(B), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1981. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Interstate Automotive Services INC, a corporation in Franklin, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 16, 1981.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Interstate Automotive Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 3, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated February 16, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T-405 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N120TM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Monto Theordore J KR-2 (serial KR7455, cancelled July 20, 1990). 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 N120TM: Accident on October 20, 1989 at Eloy, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":11,"serial_number":"T-405","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 682111","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00232010","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N120TM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"370682111"}