{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1975-05-27","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-07-22","city":"EKRON","country_code":"US","county_code":"163","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-22","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2073704","mode_s_code":"50652570","mode_s_hex":"A35578","model":"177","n_number":"N3138T","name":"JONES DANIEL D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hot Springs","damage":"SUBS","date":"2023-06-26","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN23FA258","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s improper preflight fuel planning and inflight fuel mismanagement, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion, and his subsequent failure to maintain adequate airspeed during the forced landing, which resulted in the airplane exceeding its critical angle of attack and entering an aerodynamic stall at a low altitude. Contributing to the accident was the pilot\u2019s impairment from his use of multiple impairing substances.","registration":"N3138T","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on June 26, 2023 at Hot Springs, AR: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3138T is a Cessna 177, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ekron, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 27, 1975.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Jones Daniel D, an individual, certificate issued July 22, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 27, 1975, 7 years after the 1968 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 17700438 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N3138T 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":"1 NTSB record under N3138T: Accident on June 26, 2023 at Hot Springs, AR: fatal, substantial damage (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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"17700438","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"165 BUNGER RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00141573","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3138T","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1968,"zip":"401178686"}