{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1994-05-03","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-11-23","city":"CALDWELL","country_code":"US","county_code":"027","cruise_speed_mph":122,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52008","engine_horsepower":450,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R-985 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-23","maker":"Dehavilland","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DEHAVILLAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2800105","mode_s_code":"50406067","mode_s_hex":"A20C37","model":"BEAVER U-6A","n_number":"N231A","name":"WEITZ DAVID","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"LANGHORNE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1985-12-15","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ATL86FA041","probable_cause":"","registration":"N231A","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on December 15, 1985 at Langhorne, PA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N231A is a Dehavilland BEAVER U-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Caldwell, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 3, 1994.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Weitz David, an individual, certificate issued November 23, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 3, 1994, 42 years after the 1952 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 227 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N231A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K (serial 250645, cancelled April 4, 1996). 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 N231A: Accident on December 15, 1985 at Langhorne, PA: fatal, substantial damage (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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":8,"serial_number":"227","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ID","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"22200 PAPA WHISKEY LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00302071","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N231A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1952,"zip":"836074818"}