{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2005-04-06","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-01-28","city":"RIVERSIDE","country_code":"US","county_code":"065","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41575","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-360 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"MURPHY AIRCRAFT MFG LTD","kit_model":"MURPHY ELITE","last_action_date":"2023-07-28","maker":"Thweatt Andrew C","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"THWEATT ANDREW C","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05618PX","mode_s_code":"50476411","mode_s_hex":"A27D09","model":"MURPHY ELITE","n_number":"N26EA","name":"THWEATT ANDREW C","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MIAMI","damage":"SUBS","date":"1998-02-03","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA98LA070","probable_cause":"The pilot's improper use of flight controls (cyclic) while attempting a takeoff to a hover, which led to an on-ground loss of control (dynamic rollover).","registration":"N26EA","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on February 3, 1998 at Miami, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N26EA is a Thweatt Andrew C MURPHY ELITE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Riverside, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 6, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Thweatt Andrew C, an individual, certificate issued January 28, 2005, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 6, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 716E for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N26EA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2175, cancelled December 3, 2001); Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 (serial 45665, cancelled date not given). 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 N26EA: Accident on February 3, 1998 at Miami, 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"716E","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4585 BEATTY DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00143889","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N26EA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2005,"zip":"925062383"}