{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2013-11-19","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-10-25","city":"LAS VEGAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42389","engine_horsepower":150,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Holmes Gary Don","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HOLMES GARY DON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05603TV","mode_s_code":"50126741","mode_s_hex":"A0ADE1","model":"RUTAN LONG-EZ","n_number":"N143AM","name":"MCGEE RONALD S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N143AM is a Holmes Gary Don RUTAN LONG-EZ, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Las Vegas, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 19, 2013.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mcgee Ronald S, an individual, certificate issued October 25, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 19, 2013, 16 years after the 1997 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 1081 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N143AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 A-4 (serial 7061, cancelled April 22, 2014). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N143AM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1081","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NV","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"900 LAS VEGAS BLVD S #706","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00466131","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N143AM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"89101"}