{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2006-07-21","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-06-26","city":"SANTA MONICA","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","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":"2031-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-09-28","maker":"Aerostar S A","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR S A","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1140003","mode_s_code":"50660101","mode_s_hex":"A36041","model":"YAK-52","n_number":"N31656","name":"RUBANA INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N31656 is an Aerostar S A YAK-52, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Rubana INC, a non-citizen corporation in Santa Monica, California. The FAA lists the registration as \"non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports\" (certificate issued June 26, 2024). It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 21, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 878206 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N31656 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco VKS-7 (serial 5278, cancelled August 19, 2003). 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 N31656. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":2,"serial_number":"878206","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports","status_code":"N","status_short":"Reports overdue","street":"2632 WILSHIRE BLVD # 388","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00249459","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N31656","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"904034623"}