{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1955-10-04","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1999-11-17","city":"ASHLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":75,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17008","engine_horsepower":85,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"C85 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Aeronca","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AERONCA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0191106","mode_s_code":"51123655","mode_s_hex":"A4A7AD","model":"11BC","n_number":"N3998E","name":"OCHSENBAUER DAVID J DBA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"SKYWAYS NORTH AVIATION","plain_english":"N3998E is an Aeronca 11BC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ashland, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 1999 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 4, 1955.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ochsenbauer David J DBA, an individual, certificate issued November 17, 1999, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 4, 1955, 8 years after the 1947 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 11BC-86 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N3998E 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 N3998E. 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":"11BC-86","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"214 13TH AVE E","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00170804","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3998E","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1947,"zip":"548062132"}