{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2024-03-16","airworthiness_ops":"Acrobatic","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-02-09","city":"EAST WENATCHEE","country_code":"US","county_code":"007","cruise_speed_mph":45,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-02-09","maker":"Let","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LET","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1360306","mode_s_code":"50463164","mode_s_hex":"A26674","model":"BLANIK L-13","n_number":"N254BA","name":"PULLUP ASSOCIATES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"JACKSONVILLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1999-07-15","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA99LA197","probable_cause":"the pilot's improper in-flight decisions allowing the glider to descend to a low altitude, resulting in a forced landing off the airport and subsequent impact with a tree.","registration":"N254BA","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on July 15, 1999 at Jacksonville, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"JACKSONVILLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1995-12-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA96LA045","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY PLAN THE FLIGHT.","registration":"N254BA","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on December 16, 1995 at Jacksonville, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N254BA is a Let BLANIK L-13, a glider with no engine, built in 1974. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Pullup Associates INC, a corporation in East Wenatchee, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated March 16, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Pullup Associates INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 9, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 16, 2024, 50 years after the 1974 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 026030 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N254BA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Icon Aircraft Inc A5 (serial 00038, cancelled October 16, 2018); Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK (serial 917803, cancelled February 25, 2011). 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":"2 NTSB records under N254BA: Accident on July 15, 1999 at Jacksonville, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 16, 1995 at Jacksonville, FL: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"026030","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"818 MANZANAL ST NE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01439046","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N254BA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1974,"zip":"988024558"}