{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1980-04-04","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"RANTOUL","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":162,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2022-02-05","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103110","mode_s_code":"50471427","mode_s_hex":"A27317","model":"PA-31-350","n_number":"N257SH","name":"DODSON INTERNATIONAL PARTS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Fort Lauderdale","damage":"SUBS","date":"2020-09-19","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA20LA331","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s improper preflight fuel planning, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the accident was the pilot\u2019s decision to continue to the destination following the loss of engine power to the first engine.","registration":"N257SH","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on September 19, 2020 at Fort Lauderdale, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N257SH is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation in Rantoul, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on  and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 4, 1980.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-8052121 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N257SH 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 N257SH: Accident on September 19, 2020 at Fort Lauderdale, 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":8,"serial_number":"31-8052121","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2155 VERMONT RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00053003","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N257SH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"660799014"}