{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2009-10-28","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-09-04","city":"DIKE","country_code":"US","county_code":"075","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42123","engine_horsepower":150,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-320-E2D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-9A","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Mattson Douglas L","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MATTSON DOUGLAS L","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056283Q","mode_s_code":"50657056","mode_s_hex":"A35E2E","model":"VANS RV9A","n_number":"N316M","name":"MATTSON DOUGLAS L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Valparaiso","damage":"DEST","date":"2001-05-06","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI01LA131","probable_cause":"The pilot not maintaining aircraft control during the initial climb after takeoff and the inadvertent stall/spin.  A factor to the accident was the pilot's total lack of experience in accident airplane.","registration":"N316M","state":"IN","summary":"Accident on May 6, 2001 at Valparaiso, IN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N316M is a Mattson Douglas L VANS RV9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dike, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 2009.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mattson Douglas L, an individual, certificate issued September 4, 2009, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 91035 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N316M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Madsen Myron L LANCAIR-320 (serial 88-244, cancelled September 25, 2003); Cessna Aircraft Co CG-2 (serial 11, cancelled March 8, 1933). 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 N316M: Accident on May 6, 2001 at Valparaiso, IN: fatal, destroyed (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":2,"serial_number":"91035","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"401 DIVISION ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01038861","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N316M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2009,"zip":"506249602"}