{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1999-04-26","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-08-05","city":"WEST ALEXANDRIA","country_code":"US","county_code":"135","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"09050","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"BOMBARDIER","engine_model":"ROTAX (ALL)","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Krapp D/Andrus M","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"KRAPP D/ANDRUS M","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05606LC","mode_s_code":"51120330","mode_s_hex":"A4A0D8","model":"KITFOX 4 1200","n_number":"N398DM","name":"BOTTING WILLIAM A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N398DM is a Krapp D/Andrus M KITFOX 4 1200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in West Alexandria, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 26, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Botting William A, an individual, certificate issued August 5, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 26, 1999, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial ECU047 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N398DM 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 N398DM. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"ECU047","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8569 GERMANTOWN RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00273676","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N398DM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1998,"zip":"453819505"}