{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2010-01-19","airworthiness_ops":"Operating light-sport previously certificated","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-12-28","city":"PINECREST","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55570","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912S","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Sotero Albert","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SOTERO ALBERT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05903FO","mode_s_code":"50662143","mode_s_hex":"A36463","model":"DRIFTER","n_number":"N31788","name":"FALCONTRUST HOLDINGS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FORT MYERS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1999-04-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA99LA121","probable_cause":"The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain aircraft control after the ground tie chain separated during engine run and hovering operations.","registration":"N31788","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on April 8, 1999 at Fort Myers, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N31788 is a Sotero Albert DRIFTER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Falcontrust Holdings LLC, an LLC in Pinecrest, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated January 19, 2010.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Falcontrust Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 28, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 19, 2010, 3 years after the 2007 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 UA004 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N31788 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing-Vertol 219 CH47C (serial D043, cancelled December 6, 1978); Aeronca 65-TL (serial L-6570T, cancelled August 28, 1963). 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 N31788: Accident on April 8, 1999 at Fort Myers, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"UA004","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6650 SW 106TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"00393159","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N31788","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2007,"zip":"331564048"}