{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2009-09-09","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-03-14","city":"TEXARKANA","country_code":"US","county_code":"091","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55578","engine_horsepower":75,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"618","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-03-14","maker":"M-Squared Aircraft","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"M-SQUARED AIRCRAFT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05904V1","mode_s_code":"50115476","mode_s_hex":"A09B3E","model":"SPRINT 1000","n_number":"N138ZX","name":"SMELTZER PAUL C","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Gurdon","damage":"SUBS","date":"2018-05-22","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CEN18LA189","probable_cause":"Inadequate engine maintenance, which resulted in the failure of the MAG piston ring and the subsequent total loss of engine power due to a piston seizure.","registration":"N138ZX","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on May 22, 2018 at Gurdon, AR: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N138ZX is a M-Squared Aircraft SPRINT 1000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Texarkana, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 9, 2009.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Smeltzer Paul C, an individual, certificate issued March 14, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 9, 2009, 3 years after the 2006 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 000582DT for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N138ZX 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 N138ZX: Accident on May 22, 2018 at Gurdon, AR: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"000582DT","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"152 MC 422","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00459239","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N138ZX","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2006,"zip":"71854"}