{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1955-12-06","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2003-02-10","city":"HOUSTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"201","cruise_speed_mph":184,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"67028","engine_horsepower":1425,"engine_maker":"WRIGHT","engine_model":"C9HD SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Lockheed","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LOCKHEED","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5261642","mode_s_code":"50642416","mode_s_hex":"A3450E","model":"18-56","n_number":"N31G","name":"HOUSTON AERONAUTICAL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N31G is a Lockheed 18-56, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 17 seats. It is registered to Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society INC, a corporation in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2003 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 6, 1955.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 10, 2003, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 6, 1955, 13 years after the 1942 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 2302 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N31G 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N31G. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":17,"serial_number":"2302","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8325 TRAVELAIR ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00441383","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N31G","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1942,"zip":"770614716"}