{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2010-04-15","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-07-18","city":"STOW","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan or lien (security agreement)","doc_type_code":"S/A","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-09"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30035","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"CJ-610-8A","engine_thrust_lb":2950,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Classic Fighter Industries Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CLASSIC FIGHTER INDUSTRIES INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05608IN","mode_s_code":"50503203","mode_s_hex":"A28683","model":"ME 262 REPRODUCTION","n_number":"N262AZ","name":"COLLINGS FOUNDATION","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Everett","damage":"SUBS","date":"2003-01-17","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA03LA027","probable_cause":"Failure of the left main gear hydraulic actuator locking slide during landing.  Factors include an embankment adjacent to the landing runway.","registration":"N262AZ","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on January 17, 2003 at Everett, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N262AZ is a Classic Fighter Industries Inc ME 262 REPRODUCTION, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Collings Foundation, a corporation in Stow, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 15, 2010. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Collings Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued July 18, 2008, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 15, 2010, 8 years after the 2002 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 501241 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N262AZ according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 9, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N262AZ: Accident on January 17, 2003 at Everett, WA: 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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"501241","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 248","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbojet","type_engine_code":"4","unique_id":"00673553","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N262AZ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"017750248"}