{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1968-06-17","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-03-04","city":"THE ROCK","country_code":"US","county_code":"293","cruise_speed_mph":71,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17003","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"A&C65 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Aeronca","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AERONCA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0190926","mode_s_code":"50426641","mode_s_hex":"A22DA1","model":"S-65-C","n_number":"N23996","name":"RATLIFF ALAN M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N23996 is an Aeronca S-65-C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in The Rock, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 17, 1968.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ratliff Alan M, an individual, certificate issued March 4, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; 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 C6559 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N23996 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N23996. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"C6559","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"650 PIEDMONT RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00572472","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N23996","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"302852326"}