{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2008-01-21","airworthiness_ops":"Weight-shift control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-11-15","city":"AUSTIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"453","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55556","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"582SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"light-sport","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-01","maker":"Burns Stephen A","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BURNS STEPHEN A","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05903L3","mode_s_code":"50607573","mode_s_hex":"A30F7B","model":"TRIKE","n_number":"N297A","name":"BURNS STEPHEN A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N297A is a Burns Stephen A TRIKE, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 2007 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for weight-shift control, dated January 21, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Burns Stephen A, an individual, certificate issued November 15, 2007, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 21, 2008, 6 years after the 2002 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 0030 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N297A 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 N297A. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"0030","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1712 WATERSTON AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Weight-shift control","type_aircraft_code":"7","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00436539","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N297A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"787033937"}