{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-02-24","city":"ARVADA","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC","kit_model":"XENOS","last_action_date":"2023-07-18","maker":"Bruce A Fritz","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BRUCE A FRITZ","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05635I2","mode_s_code":"50465060","mode_s_hex":"A26A30","model":"XENOS","n_number":"N255BF","name":"BUTLER HENRY A JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Longmont","damage":"DEST","date":"2022-09-17","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN22FA424","probable_cause":"The pilots\u2019 inability to see and avoid each other, resulting in a midair collision.","registration":"N255BF","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on September 17, 2022 at Longmont, CO: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N255BF is a Bruce A Fritz XENOS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Arvada, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Butler Henry A JR, an individual, certificate issued February 24, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial X0046 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N255BF according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N255BF: Accident on September 17, 2022 at Longmont, CO: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"X0046","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"9163 W 75TH CIR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01227175","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N255BF","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"800054140"}