{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1999-05-27","city":"HURON","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-20","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102803","mode_s_code":"50310107","mode_s_hex":"A19047","model":"PA-28-161","n_number":"N20GG","name":"HOFER DANNY C","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Rapid City","damage":"SUBS","date":"2012-02-24","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN12LA175","probable_cause":"The loss of engine power during climb due to carburetor icing. Contributing to the accident was the limited travel of the carburetor heat valve which prevented application of maximum carburetor heat.","registration":"N20GG","state":"SD","summary":"Accident on February 24, 2012 at Rapid City, SD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"HOFER CONNIE R","plain_english":"N20GG is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Huron, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 1999 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hofer Danny C, a co-owned, certificate issued May 27, 1999, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7916032 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N20GG 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 N20GG: Accident on February 24, 2012 at Rapid City, SD: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":4,"serial_number":"28-7916032","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 124","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00821472","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N20GG","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"573500124"}