{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2011-03-22","airworthiness_ops":"Airplane","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-11-04","city":"SANTA MONICA","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55572","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912ULS SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Czech Sport Aircraft As","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CZECH SPORT AIRCRAFT AS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0600073","mode_s_code":"50065772","mode_s_hex":"A06BFA","model":"PIPER SPORT","n_number":"N126WK","name":"SANTA MONICA FLYERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Santa Monica","damage":"DEST","date":"2022-09-08","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR22FA338","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s inability to maintain control of the airplane during the landing flare due to the passenger\u2019s excessive control inputs, which resulted in the airplane exceeding its critical angle of attack and entering an aerodynamic stall.","registration":"N126WK","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on September 8, 2022 at Santa Monica, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N126WK is a Czech Sport Aircraft As PIPER SPORT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Santa Monica Flyers INC, a corporation in Santa Monica, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated March 22, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Santa Monica Flyers INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 4, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Light sport certificate for airplane, dated March 22, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial P1001093 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N126WK 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 N126WK: Accident on September 8, 2022 at Santa Monica, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"P1001093","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3165 DONALD DOUGLAS LOOP S","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01066748","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N126WK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"904053210"}