{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2018-09-20","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-08-15","city":"WEST LAFAYETTE","country_code":"US","county_code":"157","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42299","engine_horsepower":168,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-360-B2C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV7A","last_action_date":"2023-03-10","maker":"Ruley Paul B","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RULEY PAUL B","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05636GV","mode_s_code":"50540716","mode_s_hex":"A2C1CE","model":"RV-7A","n_number":"N277PM","name":"RULEY PAUL B","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Rockford","damage":"DEST","date":"2002-12-18","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI03FA041","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during the ILS approach.  Factors associated with the accident were the low ceilings, high winds, crosswind, and wind shear conditions that existed.","registration":"N277PM","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on December 18, 2002 at Rockford, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"RULEY MARY GRAFTON","plain_english":"N277PM is a Ruley Paul B RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in West Lafayette, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2018.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ruley Paul B, a co-owned, certificate issued August 15, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73461 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N277PM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 208B (serial 208B0143, cancelled July 1, 2004). 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 N277PM: Accident on December 18, 2002 at Rockford, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"73461","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6121 GALLEGOS DRIVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01255130","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N277PM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2018,"zip":"47906"}