{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1994-06-07","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2000-01-20","city":"INDEPENDENCE","country_code":"US","county_code":"125","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"63501","engine_horsepower":36,"engine_maker":"VOLKSWAGEN","engine_model":"CONVERSION","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Klebs Earl N","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"KLEBS EARL N","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05624FZ","mode_s_code":"50327245","mode_s_hex":"A1AEA5","model":"HEAD WIND","n_number":"N2072C","name":"MATTIX AARON L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HONOLULU","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-03-09","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX91LA127","probable_cause":"INACCURATE FUEL CONSUMPTION CALCULATION BY THE PILOT. A FACTOR WAS THE PARTIAL DEFLATION OF THE EMERGENCY FLOTATION EQUIPMENT.","registration":"N2072C","state":"HI","summary":"Accident on March 9, 1991 at Honolulu, HI: no injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2072C is a Klebs Earl N HEAD WIND, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Independence, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 2000 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 7, 1994.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mattix Aaron L, an individual, certificate issued January 20, 2000, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 7, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial EMK5 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2072C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 3422, cancelled April 16, 1991); Beech E-55 (serial TE1156, cancelled May 17, 1979). 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 N2072C: Accident on March 9, 1991 at Honolulu, HI: no 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"EMK5","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5126 HIGHWAY 160","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00774562","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2072C","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1994,"zip":"673017555"}