{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2024-04-11","airworthiness_ops":"Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-02-14","city":"FREDERICKSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"171","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"06401","engine_horsepower":56,"engine_maker":"AUSTRO","engine_model":"IAE 50R-AA","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-01-15","maker":"Alexander Schleicher","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3801557","mode_s_code":"50170413","mode_s_hex":"A0F10B","model":"ASK 21 MI","n_number":"N16TN","name":"MCKNIGHT THOMAS N","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hayward","damage":"SUBS","date":"2005-04-12","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"LAX05LA134","probable_cause":"A loss of engine power due to fuel system contamination.  A factor in the accident was the fuel system not being flushed out after it was involved in a previous accident where the fuel tanks were damaged.","registration":"N16TN","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on April 12, 2005 at Hayward, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"San Jose","damage":"SUBS","date":"2004-07-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX04LA269","probable_cause":"The pilot's misjudgment of the airplane's distance/speed during a precautionary landing, which resulted in the airplane overrunning the runway.  Contributing factors were failure of an oil line, and the fence.","registration":"N16TN","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on July 16, 2004 at San Jose, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N16TN is an Alexander Schleicher ASK 21 MI, a glider with a rotary engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fredericksburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 11, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mcknight Thomas N, an individual, certificate issued February 14, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 11, 2024, 10 years after the 2014 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 21912 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N16TN was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mooney Airplane Co Inc M20TN (serial 31-0028, cancelled April 5, 2018); Newell Thomas J RV6A (serial 22305, cancelled September 29, 2005). 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":"2 NTSB records under N16TN: Accident on April 12, 2005 at Hayward, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 16, 2004 at San Jose, 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"21912","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1288 SOUTHWOODS DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Rotary","type_engine_code":"11","unique_id":"01440137","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N16TN","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"AS 33 ME","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2014,"zip":"786248210"}