{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2011-09-24","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-03-25","city":"LIBERAL","country_code":"US","county_code":"175","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41575","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-360 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Lyddon S/Lyddon W","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LYDDON S/LYDDON W","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05630QY","mode_s_code":"50405022","mode_s_hex":"A20A12","model":"LYDDON PITTS S1S","n_number":"N230SB","name":"SIERRA BRAVO PARTNERSHIP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Liberal","damage":"DEST","date":"2004-10-24","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI05LA015","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane while performing aerobatic flight maneuvers resulting in an in-flight collision with terrain.","registration":"N230SB","state":"KS","summary":"Accident on October 24, 2004 at Liberal, KS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"LYDDON STEVEN / LYDDON WILLIAM","plain_english":"N230SB is a Lyddon S/Lyddon W LYDDON PITTS S1S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sierra Bravo Partnership, a partnership in Liberal, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2011 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 24, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sierra Bravo Partnership, a partnership, certificate issued March 25, 2011, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 24, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N230SB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Strissel Dale R PITTS S1S 1979 (serial 7-0422, cancelled January 16, 2008). 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 N230SB: Accident on October 24, 2004 at Liberal, KS: 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Partnership","registrant_type_code":"2","seats":1,"serial_number":"001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 945","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01067101","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N230SB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"679050945"}