{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1996-10-01","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-12-19","city":"MOBILE","country_code":"US","county_code":"097","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"09050","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"BOMBARDIER","engine_model":"ROTAX (ALL)","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-12-19","maker":"Smith T Gunter","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SMITH T GUNTER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056035O","mode_s_code":"50414776","mode_s_hex":"A219FE","model":"QUICK SILVER SP II","n_number":"N2342D","name":"DEES ANDREW C","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Mobile","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-08-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA24LA349","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain control of the airplane in gusty wind conditions while flying low over water, which resulted in the floats impacting a wave and the airplane\u2019s subsequent nose over into the water.","registration":"N2342D","state":"AL","summary":"Accident on August 16, 2024 at Mobile, AL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2342D is a Smith T Gunter QUICK SILVER SP II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mobile, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 1, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Dees Andrew C, an individual, certificate issued December 19, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0511 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2342D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170B (serial 20494, cancelled May 14, 2009). 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 N2342D: Accident on August 16, 2024 at Mobile, AL: no injuries, substantial 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"0511","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2020 POINT LEGERE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00916261","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2342D","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"366052812"}