{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2016-09-16","city":"IOWA CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"103","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-02","maker":"Troy Built Models","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TROY BUILT MODELS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"06101GA","mode_s_code":"50145577","mode_s_hex":"A0CB7F","model":"TBM UAV-3","n_number":"N150PL","name":"STATE OF IOWA UNIVERSITY OF IOWA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ALEXANDER","damage":"SUBS","date":"2001-05-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC01LA060","probable_cause":"The instructor pilot's inadequate supervision of the flight.  Factors in the accident were the dual student's selection of unsuitable terrain for landing, and the presence of a sand bar in the landing area.","registration":"N150PL","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on May 30, 2001 at Alexander, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"OPERATOR PERFORMANCE LAB (OPL)","plain_english":"N150PL is a Troy Built Models TBM UAV-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It is unmanned. It is registered to State Of Iowa University Of Iowa, a government body in Iowa City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2016 and expires on September 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 State Of Iowa University Of Iowa, a government body, certificate issued September 16, 2016, expires September 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 2016-002 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N150PL 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 N150PL: Accident on May 30, 2001 at Alexander, AK: 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":0,"serial_number":"2016-002","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3131 SEAMANS CTR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"01220180","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N150PL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"522421504"}