{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1984-10-19","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-06-22","city":"BEMIDJI","country_code":"US","county_code":"007","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-19","maker":"Fairchild","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FAIRCHILD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3377509","mode_s_code":"50646677","mode_s_hex":"A34DBF","model":"SA227-AC","n_number":"N3116N","name":"BEMIDJI AVIATION SERVICES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3116N is a Fairchild SA227-AC, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1984. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Bemidji Aviation Services INC, a corporation in Bemidji, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 19, 1984.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bemidji Aviation Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 22, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated October 19, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AC-596 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3116N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 120 (serial 13374, cancelled June 17, 1957). 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 N3116N. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":12,"serial_number":"AC-596","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4125 HANGAR DR NW","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00692284","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3116N","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1984,"zip":"566016243"}