{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1955-11-02","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-09-16","city":"PUNTA GORDA","country_code":"US","county_code":"071","cruise_speed_mph":165,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52008","engine_horsepower":450,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R-985 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-09-16","maker":"Beech","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BEECH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1151006","mode_s_code":"50544576","mode_s_hex":"A2C97E","model":"E18S","n_number":"N279SC","name":"GRIEFF JOHN J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N279SC is a Beech E18S, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 10 seats. It is registered to an individual in Punta Gorda, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 2, 1955.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Grieff John J, an individual, certificate issued September 16, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate, dated November 2, 1955, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BA-74 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N279SC 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N279SC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":10,"serial_number":"BA-74","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"17844 HIBISCUS COVE CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00580223","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N279SC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1955,"zip":"339554678"}