{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2004-07-21","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-04-15","city":"LOCUST GROVE","country_code":"US","county_code":"137","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-6A","last_action_date":"2026-04-15","maker":"Thocker Jon","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"THOCKER JON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05617MU","mode_s_code":"50336650","mode_s_hex":"A1BDA8","model":"RV-6A","n_number":"N211EL","name":"FAIRHURST DAVID CHARLES","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Venice","damage":"DEST","date":"2007-12-29","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DFW08FA053","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s decision to continue to the destination landing platform in weather conditions below the company\u2019s weather minimums and his failure to maintain aircraft control during the approach. Contributing to the passenger fatality and the severity of the occupant injuries were the lack of a passenger briefing on how to deploy the liferaft, which was required by the company but not by the Federal Aviation Administration because this flight was not an extended overwater operation; the pilot\u2019s failure to deploy the liferafts; and the company radio operator\u2019s misreporting of the helicopter\u2019s \u201clanded\u201d status, which delayed the rescue response.","registration":"N211EL","state":"LA","summary":"Accident on December 29, 2007 at Venice, LA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"FAIRHURST CATHERINE THERESA","plain_english":"N211EL is a Thocker Jon RV-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Locust Grove, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 21, 2004.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Fairhurst David Charles, a co-owned, certificate issued April 15, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 21, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25013 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N211EL was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 (serial 45251, cancelled August 6, 2010); Beech E50 (serial EH56, cancelled October 18, 1991). 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 N211EL: Accident on December 29, 2007 at Venice, LA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"25013","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"213 CUMBERLAND CIR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00103619","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N211EL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2004,"zip":"225085203"}