{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2012-01-05","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-08-31","city":"CHEHALIS","country_code":"US","county_code":"041","cruise_speed_mph":56,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17329","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"A-65-8","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7100502","mode_s_code":"50630740","mode_s_hex":"A331E0","model":"J-3","n_number":"N30496","name":"BURTON DOUGLAS M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N30496 is a Piper J-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chehalis, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 5, 2012.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Burton Douglas M, an individual, certificate issued August 31, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 5, 2012, 71 years after the 1941 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 6627 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N30496 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177A (serial 17701289, cancelled April 12, 2005). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N30496. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"6627","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"510 S E PROSPECT ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00389599","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N30496","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1941,"zip":"98532"}