{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1987-01-26","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-11-10","city":"TEHACHAPI","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":150,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-23","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102304","mode_s_code":"51126675","mode_s_hex":"A4ADBD","model":"PA-23-160","n_number":"N400MJ","name":"HANEY MICHAEL W","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ELKHART","damage":"DEST","date":"1999-05-25","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI99FA165","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadequate in-flight planning/decision and his inadvertent flight into instrument meteorological conditions which resulted in spatial disorientation and subsequent loss of aircraft control.  Contributing to the accident was the poor weather conditions.","registration":"N400MJ","state":"KS","summary":"Accident on May 25, 1999 at Elkhart, KS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N400MJ is a Piper PA-23-160, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tehachapi, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1987.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Haney Michael W, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23-1627 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N400MJ was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19 (serial 7309, cancelled February 20, 2007); Air Tractor Inc AT-400 (serial 400-0676, cancelled May 8, 2000). 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 N400MJ: Accident on May 25, 1999 at Elkhart, KS: fatal, destroyed (1 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":5,"serial_number":"23-1627","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"21108 INDIAN WELLS DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00590842","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N400MJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"935618034"}