{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2019-07-04","airworthiness_ops":"Airplane","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-11-03","city":"BEAUMONT","country_code":"US","county_code":"065","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55571","engine_horsepower":80,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912UL SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Pipistrel","maker_country":"SI","maker_raw":"PIPISTREL ITALIA S R L","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"06001B5","mode_s_code":"50331006","mode_s_hex":"A1B206","model":"ALPHA TRAINER","n_number":"N208ZM","name":"AHLERS BRIAN J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Paso Robles","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-06-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR24LA189","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s exceedance of the airplane\u2019s critical angle of attack that resulted in an aerodynamic stall and subsequent loss of control on final approach. Contributing to the accident was the pilot\u2019s decision to land with a tailwind.","registration":"N208ZM","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on June 8, 2024 at Paso Robles, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N208ZM is a Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Beaumont, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 3, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated July 4, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ahlers Brian J, an individual, certificate issued November 3, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Light sport certificate for airplane, dated July 4, 2019, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 920 AT 912 LSA for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N208ZM according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N208ZM: Accident on June 8, 2024 at Paso Robles, 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"920 AT 912 LSA","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"36586 BAY HILL DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01287508","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N208ZM","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2018,"zip":"922238018"}