{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2015-02-05","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"GILLETTE","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"34804","engine_horsepower":120,"engine_maker":"JABIRU","engine_model":"3300A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"ZENITH AIRCRAFT CO","kit_model":"ZODIAC 601 XL","last_action_date":"2026-03-11","maker":"Iwersen Lorenz P","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"IWERSEN LORENZ P","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056269R","mode_s_code":"50546305","mode_s_hex":"A2CCC5","model":"ZODIAC 601 XL","n_number":"N28MR","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Saltsburg","damage":"SUBS","date":"2010-08-07","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA10FA404","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s loss of control of the airplane during low-airspeed airwork and his failure to promptly recover the airplane from the aerodynamic stall, which resulted in a spin. Contributing to the accident were the pilot and certified flight instructor\u2019s intentional operation of the airplane for the purpose of performing instructional airwork with only a throw-over control yoke installed and the pilot\u2019s lack of recent flight experience in the airplane make and model. Contributing to the lack of accurate performance data (including the air minimum control airspeed) for the modified airplane was the lack of guidance by the Federal Aviation Administration for an installer of a supplemental type certificate (STC) modification to determine the interrelationship between all STCs incorporated into an aircraft.","registration":"N28MR","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on August 7, 2010 at Saltsburg, PA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N28MR is an Iwersen Lorenz P ZODIAC 601 XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gillette, Wyoming. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 5, 2015.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 5, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65551 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N28MR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH-1328, cancelled September 17, 2010). 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 N28MR: Accident on August 7, 2010 at Saltsburg, PA: fatal, substantial 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"65551","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WY","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"8501 PTARMIGAN AVE APT B","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01010852","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N28MR","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2015,"zip":"827187334"}