{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-12-18","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2002-03-07","city":"WASHINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41533","engine_horsepower":310,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TI0-540 SER","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":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2073303","mode_s_code":"50771562","mode_s_hex":"A3F372","model":"T206H","n_number":"N3538R","name":"US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SPENCER","damage":"DEST","date":"1982-11-14","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ATL83AA031","probable_cause":"","registration":"N3538R","state":"VA","summary":"Accident on November 14, 1982 at Spencer, VA: fatal, destroyed (8 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"US CUSTOMS & BORDER PROTECTION / OFFICE OF AIR & MARINE","plain_english":"N3538R is a Cessna T206H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 6 seats. It is registered to US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2002 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 18, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body, certificate issued March 7, 2002, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 18, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T20608341 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3538R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-31 (serial 31-7912115, cancelled April 14, 1983); Beech A23 (serial M-706, cancelled August 25, 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 N3538R: Accident on November 14, 1982 at Spencer, VA: fatal, destroyed (8 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":6,"serial_number":"T20608341","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1300 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW RM 6.4A","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00204017","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3538R","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"202290002"}