{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2003-06-07","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-09-16","city":"MILTON FREEWATER","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41594","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-360-A1A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV7A","last_action_date":"2023-09-02","maker":"Van Duyn Robert D","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"VAN DUYN ROBERT D","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056148U","mode_s_code":"50375517","mode_s_hex":"A1FB4F","model":"RV-7A","n_number":"N227DB","name":"NORTHWEST STEEL LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N227DB is a Van Duyn Robert D RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Northwest Steel LLC, an LLC in Milton Freewater, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 7, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Northwest Steel LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 16, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 7, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70522 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N227DB 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N227DB. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"70522","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1573 S MAIN ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00030939","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N227DB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"978621228"}