{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2005-12-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-08-06","city":"PITTSBURGH","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41597","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-360-L2A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072439","mode_s_code":"50444774","mode_s_hex":"A249FC","model":"172S","n_number":"N24697","name":"RITTON AIR COMPANY LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ATHENS","damage":"SUBS","date":"2001-10-28","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"MIA02LA013","probable_cause":"the pilot misjudged the ailment of the airplane on the active runway, inadvertently taking off from a parallel taxiway, and  subsequently departing the hard surface into a 40 foot drop off.  A factor in this accident was a dark night, and the pilot's total experience in night operations.","registration":"N24697","state":"GA","summary":"Accident on October 28, 2001 at Athens, GA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N24697 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ritton Air Company LLC, an LLC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 20, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ritton Air Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 6, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 20, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10068 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N24697 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C23 (serial M-1424, cancelled April 15, 2002). 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 N24697: Accident on October 28, 2001 at Athens, GA: serious 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"172S10068","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8199 MCNIGHT RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00216499","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N24697","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2005,"zip":"15237"}