{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2005-07-25","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-12-15","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41527","engine_horsepower":295,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"GO-480 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-31","maker":"Focke-Wulf","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FOCKE-WULF","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3540106","mode_s_code":"50142037","mode_s_hex":"A0C41F","model":"FWP 149D","n_number":"N149A","name":"BERNIS OLD AIRPLANE CO INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N149A is a Focke-Wulf FWP 149D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Bernis Old Airplane CO INC, a non-citizen corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as \"non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports\" (certificate issued December 15, 2022). It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 25, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 25, 2005, 45 years after the 1960 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 173 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N149A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC3C-S1C3G (serial 12792, cancelled May 6, 1960). 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 N149A. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":5,"serial_number":"173","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports","status_code":"N","status_short":"Reports overdue","street":"C/O DELAWARE REGISTRY LTD","street2":"3511 SILVERSIDE RD STE 105","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00160479","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N149A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1960,"zip":"198104902"}