{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2011-09-19","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"NEW LONDON","country_code":"US","county_code":"167","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"34800","engine_horsepower":85,"engine_maker":"JABIRU","engine_model":"2200","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-16","maker":"Palmetto Electronics Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PALMETTO ELECTRONICS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05903ID","mode_s_code":"50763751","mode_s_hex":"A3E7E9","model":"X-AIR H","n_number":"N3505W","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Ellenboro","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-03-04","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA24LA151","probable_cause":"A total loss of engine power due to an inoperative ignition system.","registration":"N3505W","state":"NC","summary":"Accident on March 4, 2024 at Ellenboro, NC: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3505W is a Palmetto Electronics Inc X-AIR H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in New London, North Carolina. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending, pending cancellation\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 19, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending, pending cancellation\". 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":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 19, 2011, 4 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 1138 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3505W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-260 (serial 32-386, cancelled August 17, 1971). 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 N3505W: Accident on March 4, 2024 at Ellenboro, NC: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1138","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Registration pending, pending cancellation","status_code":"19","status_short":"Pending cancellation","street":"1175 SHORELINE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"00395329","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3505W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2007,"zip":"281276653"}