{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1992-09-11","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"LAGUNA BEACH","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":165,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52008","engine_horsepower":450,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R-985 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-22","maker":"Beech","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BEECH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1151018","mode_s_code":"50167353","mode_s_hex":"A0EEEB","model":"C-45H","n_number":"N1597","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1597 is a Beech C-45H, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1953. It has 10 seats. It is registered to an individual in Laguna Beach, California. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 11, 1992.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". 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 September 11, 1992, 39 years after the 1953 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 AF-527 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1597 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss JN4D (serial 2897, cancelled April 4, 1929). 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 N1597. 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":10,"serial_number":"AF-527","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"20976 LAGUNA CANYON RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00901350","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1597","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1953,"zip":"926511179"}