{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1953-04-23","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1985-03-01","city":"GLENWOOD","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"37504","engine_horsepower":160,"engine_maker":"KINNER","engine_model":"R5 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Ryan Aeronautical","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RYAN AERONAUTICAL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7830502","mode_s_code":"50424756","mode_s_hex":"A229EE","model":"ST3KR","n_number":"N239","name":"GERTSEN RONALD HANS","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FACTORYVILLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1989-08-20","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"NYC89LA196","probable_cause":"INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT BY THE PILOT AND HIS MISJUDGEMENT OF THE FUEL SUPPLY, WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL EXHAUSTION. THE DITCH WAS A RELATED FACTOR.","registration":"N239","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on August 20, 1989 at Factoryville, PA: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N239 is a Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Glenwood, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 1985 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 23, 1953.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gertsen Ronald Hans, an individual, certificate issued March 1, 1985, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 23, 1953, 10 years after the 1943 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 1325 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N239 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Camair 480 (serial 1-075, cancelled September 3, 1980). 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 N239: Accident on August 20, 1989 at Factoryville, PA: minor 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1325","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NJ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"994 ROUTE 517","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00592452","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N239","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1943,"zip":"07418"}