{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1978-04-05","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Acrobatic","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-08-06","city":"VALLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"055","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41505","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-235 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Bellanca","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELLANCA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1220460","mode_s_code":"50605517","mode_s_hex":"A30B4F","model":"7ECA","n_number":"N2956Z","name":"AM FLITE INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FLUSHING","damage":"DEST","date":"1988-08-03","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI88FA188","probable_cause":"PILOT'S PHYSICAL INCAPACITATION DUE TO A CORONARY SEIZURE, WHICH RESULTED IN A LOSS OF AIRCRAFT CONTROL, AND A STALL/SPIN INTO THE GROUND.","registration":"N2956Z","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on August 3, 1988 at Flushing, MI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2956Z is a Bellanca 7ECA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Am Flite INC, a corporation in Valley, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 5, 1978.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Am Flite INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 6, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 5, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1245-78 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2956Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-160 (serial 22-6929, cancelled September 29, 1959). 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 N2956Z: Accident on August 3, 1988 at Flushing, MI: 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"1245-78","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"736 W REICHMUTH RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00750873","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2956Z","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"680649201"}