{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2023-03-13","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-09-23","city":"DILLINGHAM","country_code":"US","county_code":"070","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41577","engine_horsepower":200,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"LIO-360-CIE6","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-02","maker":"Robley Carpenter","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ROBLEY CARPENTER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05640XE","mode_s_code":"50465103","mode_s_hex":"A26A43","model":"RG-1","n_number":"N255C","name":"CARPENTER ROBLEY T","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SAN SALVADOR","damage":"SUBS","date":"1987-12-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA88WA074","probable_cause":null,"registration":"N255C","state":"","summary":"Accident on December 23, 1987 at San Salvador: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N255C is a Robley Carpenter RG-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dillingham, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 13, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Carpenter Robley T, an individual, certificate issued September 23, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 13, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N255C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-30 (serial 536, cancelled June 7, 2013); Stinson 108-2 (serial 108-3255, cancelled October 7, 1965). 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 N255C: Accident on December 23, 1987 at San Salvador: 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 701","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01362427","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N255C","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"995760701"}