{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1987-01-09","city":"VENTURA","country_code":"US","county_code":"111","cruise_speed_mph":92,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Ryan Aeronautical","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RYAN AERONAUTICAL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7830402","mode_s_code":"50143657","mode_s_hex":"A0C7AF","model":"ST-A","n_number":"N14987","name":"RICHARDS JOHN F","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FRESNO","damage":"SUBS","date":"1993-06-26","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX93LA267","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL.  CONTRIBUTING TO THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS, THE HIGH RUNWAY VEGETATION, AND THE LEFT QUARTERING TAILWIND.","registration":"N14987","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on June 26, 1993 at Fresno, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"RICHARDS SALLY B","plain_english":"N14987 is a Ryan Aeronautical ST-A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Ventura, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 1987 and expires on November 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Richards John F, a co-owned, certificate issued January 9, 1987, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 124 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N14987 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 N14987: Accident on June 26, 1993 at Fresno, CA: 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"124","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3002 BAYSHORE AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00435220","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N14987","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"93001"}