{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1970-11-03","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-08-10","city":"MOUNT PLEASANT","country_code":"US","county_code":"449","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51654","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"R-985-AN-14B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Detroit","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DETROIT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5261003","mode_s_code":"50057261","mode_s_hex":"A05EB1","model":"VEGA DL-1","n_number":"N12288","name":"MID AMERICA FLIGHT MUSEUM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"YUKON","damage":"SUBS","date":"1984-03-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW84LA186","probable_cause":"","registration":"N12288","state":"OK","summary":"Accident on March 8, 1984 at Yukon, OK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N12288 is a Detroit VEGA DL-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Mid America Flight Museum, a corporation in Mount Pleasant, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1970.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mid America Flight Museum, a corporation, certificate issued August 10, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 161 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N12288 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 N12288: Accident on March 8, 1984 at Yukon, OK: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":5,"serial_number":"161","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"602 MIKE HALL PKWY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00720420","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N12288","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"754558947"}