{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1972-05-18","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-06-19","city":"THOMASVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"133","cruise_speed_mph":60,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Glasflugel","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GLASFLUGEL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3800341","mode_s_code":"50611031","mode_s_hex":"A31219","model":"STANDARD LIBELLE","n_number":"N2972","name":"MACVEIGH JOHN D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"RED RIVER","damage":"SUBS","date":"1995-07-24","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW95LA326","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S LACK OF COMPENSATION FOR THE TAILWIND AND HIS ENSUING FAILURE TO ATTAIN THE PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT. FACTORS WERE THE LACK OF THERMAL LIFT AND THE TAILWIND.","registration":"N2972","state":"NM","summary":"Accident on July 24, 1995 at Red River, NM: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2972 is a Glasflugel STANDARD LIBELLE, a glider with no engine, built in 1972. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Thomasville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated May 18, 1972.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Macveigh John D, an individual, certificate issued June 19, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider, dated May 18, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 282 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2972 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Van Valkenburgh R E DRAGONFLY (serial 11, cancelled February 6, 1928). 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 N2972: Accident on July 24, 1995 at Red River, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"282","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5075 ADMIRE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00310863","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2972","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1972,"zip":"173649696"}