{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2013-08-23","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-12-24","city":"BROWNSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"163","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55572","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912ULS SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-11-29","maker":"Phoenix Air Sro","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PHOENIX AIR SRO","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0600079","mode_s_code":"50352567","mode_s_hex":"A1D577","model":"U-15 PHOENIX","n_number":"N217W","name":"SHINGLETON DESIGN LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N217W is a Phoenix Air Sro U-15 PHOENIX, a glider with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Shingleton Design LLC, an LLC in Brownsburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 24, 2013 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for glider, dated August 23, 2013.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Shingleton Design LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 24, 2013, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Light sport certificate for glider, dated August 23, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23/U15 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N217W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Creation GTE (serial 5111946, cancelled August 12, 2009); Stinson SM-7B (serial M-3003, cancelled August 1, 1939). 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 N217W. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"23/U15","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 116","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01127884","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N217W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2013,"zip":"244150116"}