{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2011-12-14","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-04-30","city":"SANTA FE","country_code":"US","county_code":"049","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"46000","engine_horsepower":1960,"engine_maker":"MOTORLET","engine_model":"M-701C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-30","maker":"Aerovodochody","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROVODOCHODY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0564310","mode_s_code":"50656416","mode_s_hex":"A35D0E","model":"L-29 DELFIN","n_number":"N3159Y","name":"FANTASY FIGHTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PRINEVILLE","damage":"DEST","date":"1984-08-18","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"SEA84FA201","probable_cause":"","registration":"N3159Y","state":"OR","summary":"Accident on August 18, 1984 at Prineville, OR: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3159Y is an Aerovodochody L-29 DELFIN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Fantasy Fighters INC, a corporation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 14, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Fantasy Fighters INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 30, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 14, 2011, 46 years after the 1965 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 1238 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3159Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182E (serial 18254159, cancelled date not given). 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 N3159Y: Accident on August 18, 1984 at Prineville, OR: fatal, destroyed (3 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"1238","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3662 CERRILLOS RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turbojet","type_engine_code":"4","unique_id":"00463602","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3159Y","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1965,"zip":"875077249"}