{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2001-12-12","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2001-11-07","city":"KINGMAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"015","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":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"RANS INC","kit_model":"S-7 COURIER","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Shelton Joseph G","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SHELTON JOSEPH G","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05611Y9","mode_s_code":"50434116","mode_s_hex":"A2384E","model":"S-7","n_number":"N242K","name":"SHELTON JOSEPH G","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Buckeye","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-02-19","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR22LA105","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s exceedance of the airplane\u2019s critical angle of attack while on final approach to land which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and hard landing.","registration":"N242K","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on February 19, 2022 at Buckeye, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N242K is a Shelton Joseph G S-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kingman, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2001 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 12, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Shelton Joseph G, an individual, certificate issued November 7, 2001, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 12, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0101298 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N242K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeromarine Aircraft Corp 39-B (serial 13, cancelled February 9, 1933). 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 N242K: Accident on February 19, 2022 at Buckeye, AZ: 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"0101298","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4867 CHRISTY DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00414034","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N242K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"864011083"}