{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1970-10-30","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1989-07-26","city":"CLEVELAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"121","cruise_speed_mph":60,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-28","maker":"Slingsby","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SLINGSBY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8321508","mode_s_code":"50205271","mode_s_hex":"A10AB9","model":"T-53B","n_number":"N1663","name":"EVANS BRIAN E","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"RAY HOWARD H","plain_english":"N1663 is a Slingsby T-53B, a glider with no engine, built in 1968. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Evans Brian E, a partnership in Cleveland, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 1989 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated October 30, 1970.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Evans Brian E, a partnership, certificate issued July 26, 1989, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider, dated October 30, 1970, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1653 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1663 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eaglerock LONG WING EAGLEROCK (serial 124, cancelled December 13, 1937). 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 N1663. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Partnership","registrant_type_code":"2","seats":2,"serial_number":"1653","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"470 ARMSTRONG RD SE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00722180","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1663","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1968,"zip":"373236337"}