{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2025-10-01","airworthiness_ops":"Airplane","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-11-30","city":"FREDERICKSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"171","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59980","engine_horsepower":42,"engine_maker":"SPIRIT ENG","engine_model":"SPIRIT V2","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-11-30","maker":"Spirit Engineering Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SPIRIT ENGINEERING INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"06001DP","mode_s_code":"51130011","mode_s_hex":"A4B009","model":"SE-1","n_number":"N40072","name":"MCKNIGHT THOMAS N","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N40072 is a Spirit Engineering Inc SE-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Fredericksburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated October 1, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mcknight Thomas N, an individual, certificate issued November 30, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Light sport certificate for airplane, dated October 1, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 007 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N40072 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech UC-45J (serial 039258, cancelled February 28, 2020). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N40072. 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"007","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1288 SOUTHWOODS DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01518847","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N40072","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"786248210"}