{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2008-04-21","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-04-03","city":"LEHIGH VALLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"011","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42276","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-360-A4M","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-20","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102807","mode_s_code":"50567276","mode_s_hex":"A2EEBE","model":"PA-28-181","n_number":"N2885D","name":"LEHIGH VALLEY FLYING CLUB INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Westerly","damage":"MINR","date":"2003-11-16","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"NYC04FA033","probable_cause":"The Piper pilot's improper decision to continue a landing on an occupied runway, which resulted in an in-flight collision with the departing Cessna.  Factors related to the accident were the departing Cessna pilot's inattentive radio communications, and the obscured visibility of the traffic pattern from the air and ground by trees located at the departure end of the runway.","registration":"N2885D","state":"RI","summary":"Accident on November 16, 2003 at Westerly, RI: fatal, minor damage (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2885D is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lehigh Valley Flying Club INC, a corporation in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 21, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lehigh Valley Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 3, 2017, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 21, 2008, 29 years after the 1979 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 28-7990520 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2885D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated L5E1 (serial 44-17531, cancelled April 25, 1974). 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 N2885D: Accident on November 16, 2003 at Westerly, RI: fatal, minor damage (2 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"28-7990520","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 20272","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00900543","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2885D","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"180020272"}