{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2004-07-27","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-09-20","city":"INDIANA","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41522","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"AEIO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"American Champion Aircraft","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AMERICAN CHAMPION AIRCRAFT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2121000","mode_s_code":"50510703","mode_s_hex":"A291C3","model":"8KCAB","n_number":"N265CA","name":"ZACHERL RANDALL L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MONROE","damage":"DEST","date":"1997-01-09","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DCA97MA017","probable_cause":"The Federal Aviation Adminstration's (FAA) failure to establish adequate aircraft certification standards for flight in icing conditions, the FAA's failure to ensure that at Centro Tecnico Aeroespacial/FAA-approved  procedure for the accident airplane's deice system operation was implemented by U.S.-based air carriers, and the FAA's failure to require the establishment of adequate minimum airspeeds for icing conditions, which led to the loss of control when the airplane accumulated a thin, rough, accretion of ice on its lifting surfaces.  Contributing to the accident were the flightcrew's decision to operate in icing conditions near the lower margin of the operating airspeed envelope (with flaps retracted) and Comair's failure to establish and adequately disseminate unambiguous minimum airspeed values for flap configurations and for flight in icing conditions.","registration":"N265CA","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on January 9, 1997 at Monroe, MI: fatal, destroyed (29 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N265CA is an American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Indiana, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 27, 2004.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Zacherl Randall L, an individual, certificate issued September 20, 2007, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated July 27, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 965-2004 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N265CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120RT (serial 120.257, cancelled August 20, 2001). 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 N265CA: Accident on January 9, 1997 at Monroe, MI: fatal, destroyed (29 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"965-2004","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1971 GROFT RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00114909","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N265CA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2004,"zip":"157017209"}