{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2002-08-22","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-09-24","city":"WASHINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"125","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41516","engine_horsepower":175,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-435","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-17","maker":"Pitts","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PITTS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"72202MR","mode_s_code":"50400421","mode_s_hex":"A20111","model":"9-260L","n_number":"N2280","name":"GRIMM LAWRENCE S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MADISON","damage":"MINR","date":"1990-01-04","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA90IA047","probable_cause":"THE FAILURE OF COMPANY SERVICE PERSONNEL TO PROPERLY SERVICE THE AIRPLANE FORWARD LAVATORY.","registration":"N2280","state":"FL","summary":"Incident on January 4, 1990 at Madison, FL: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"WALKER ROBERT J","plain_english":"N2280 is a Pitts 9-260L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Washington, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 22, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Grimm Lawrence S, a co-owned, certificate issued September 24, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 22, 2002, 34 years after the 1968 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2280 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco ZGC-7 (serial 4560, cancelled March 3, 1943). 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 N2280: Incident on January 4, 1990 at Madison, FL: no injuries, minor 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"10","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"95 STATEMENT ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00231982","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2280","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1968,"zip":"153013144"}