{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1977-10-04","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-12-08","city":"RIVERVIEW","country_code":"US","county_code":"057","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-07","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102807","mode_s_code":"50303610","mode_s_hex":"A18788","model":"PA-28-181","n_number":"N198SW","name":"FERGUSON ROBERT S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SAN DIEGO","damage":"SUBS","date":"1997-05-21","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX97FA189","probable_cause":"The failure of maintenance personnel to allow adequate time for the engine oil to drain back into the engine oil reservoir prior to adding additional oil, thereby overfilling the reservoir, which resulted in an engine fire and subsequent damage to hydraulic lines and components, including the brakes, which precluded stopping the airplane prior to overrunning the runway end.  An additional factor was the confusing and insufficiently defined procedures for servicing the engine oil.","registration":"N198SW","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on May 21, 1997 at San Diego, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"FERGUSON STEFANIE K","plain_english":"N198SW is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Riverview, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 8, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 4, 1977.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ferguson Robert S, a co-owned, certificate issued December 8, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 4, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7890130 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N198SW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120 (serial 120.227, cancelled May 5, 2004). 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 N198SW: Accident on May 21, 1997 at San Diego, 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":4,"serial_number":"28-7890130","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"9923 COUNTRY CARRIAGE CIR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00040065","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N198SW","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1977,"zip":"335695693"}