{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-06-18","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-08-08","city":"MONMOUTH","country_code":"US","county_code":"053","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41510","engine_horsepower":170,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-340 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-08-08","maker":"David Smith","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DAVID SMITH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05642NA","mode_s_code":"50257156","mode_s_hex":"A15E6E","model":"DAVESMITH CUB","n_number":"N188AK","name":"SMITH DAVID E","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PRINCETON","damage":"DEST","date":"1999-07-13","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CHI99LA234","probable_cause":"The erratic aileron control response for undetermined reasons. A factor was the tree.","registration":"N188AK","state":"MN","summary":"Accident on July 13, 1999 at Princeton, MN: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N188AK is a David Smith DAVESMITH CUB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Monmouth, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 18, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Smith David E, an individual, certificate issued August 8, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 18, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0099 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N188AK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grimm Adrian K SEA HAWKER (serial 001, cancelled May 10, 2000). 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":"1 NTSB record under N188AK: Accident on July 13, 1999 at Princeton, MN: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"0099","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1826 STERLING DR E","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01463077","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N188AK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"973611884"}