{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2007-01-02","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-01-28","city":"BEAVERCREEK","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55560","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"582ULDCDI-99","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"light-sport","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-01-28","maker":"Northwing Design Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NORTHWING DESIGN INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05902W2","mode_s_code":"50452314","mode_s_hex":"A254CC","model":"APACHE SPORT","n_number":"N2497S","name":"POTTRATZ TIM M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"POTTRATZ AUSTIN M","plain_english":"N2497S is a Northwing Design Inc APACHE SPORT, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Beavercreek, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 2, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Pottratz Tim M, a co-owned, certificate issued January 28, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 2, 2007, 4 years after the 2003 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 703-035 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2497S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 337C (serial 337-0797, cancelled February 21, 1968). 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 N2497S. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"703-035","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"21410 S LEVI RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Weight-shift control","type_aircraft_code":"7","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00368319","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2497S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"970049792"}