{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1993-06-11","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-07-10","city":"ARLINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"439","cruise_speed_mph":null,"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":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Keim Tom A","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"KEIM TOM A","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05608ZK","mode_s_code":"50350565","mode_s_hex":"A1D175","model":"RV-4","n_number":"N216T","name":"KEIM TOM A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N216T is a Keim Tom A RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Arlington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 11, 1993.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Keim Tom A, an individual, certificate issued July 10, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 11, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1614 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N216T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18 105 (serial 18-2330, cancelled October 2, 1967). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N216T. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1614","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"216 UNIVERSITY DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00853962","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N216T","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1993,"zip":"760132423"}