{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1982-09-01","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1991-09-05","city":"DALLAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":129,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Focke Wulf","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FOCKE WULF","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3540102","mode_s_code":"50452273","mode_s_hex":"A254BB","model":"44J STIEGLITZ","n_number":"N2497","name":"AMERICAN AIRPOWER HERITAGE FLY MUSM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2497 is a Focke Wulf 44J STIEGLITZ, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Fly Musm, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 1991 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 1, 1982.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to American Airpower Heritage Fly Musm, a corporation, certificate issued September 5, 1991, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 1, 1982, 43 years after the 1939 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 SZ-33 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2497 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Alexander Aircraft Co COMBINATION EAGLEROC (serial 111, cancelled May 7, 1930). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N2497. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"SZ-33","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 764769","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00702792","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2497","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1939,"zip":"753764769"}