{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-04-29","city":"NAPLES","country_code":"US","county_code":"021","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":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"KOLB AIRCRAFT CO LLC","kit_model":"TWINSTAR M3X","last_action_date":"2023-07-28","maker":"Kipp Lyman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"KIPP LYMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05640Z5","mode_s_code":"50302660","mode_s_hex":"A185B0","model":"KOLB TWINSTAR M3X","n_number":"N1978V","name":"KIPP LYMAN E K","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SO. SIOUX CITY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-01-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI91LA066","probable_cause":"DIRECTIONAL CONTROL NOT MAINTAINED BY THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE A SNOW COVERED RUNWAY AND A LACK OF RECENT EXPERIENCE.","registration":"N1978V","state":"NE","summary":"Accident on January 13, 1991 at So. Sioux City, NE: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1978V is a Kipp Lyman KOLB TWINSTAR M3X, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Naples, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2022 and expires on April 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 Kipp Lyman E K, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 2022, expires April 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 M3X-04-3-00062 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1978V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 14189, cancelled September 5, 2008). 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 N1978V: Accident on January 13, 1991 at So. Sioux City, NE: 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"M3X-04-3-00062","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"650 BANYAN CIR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01126726","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1978V","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"341025114"}