{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2014-04-22","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2002-05-30","city":"PALMDALE","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":94,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-14"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"27042","engine_horsepower":220,"engine_maker":"FRANKLIN","engine_model":"6A-350-C1","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-17","maker":"Universal Stinson","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"UNIVERSAL STINSON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9230418","mode_s_code":"51133474","mode_s_hex":"A4B73C","model":"108-3","n_number":"N4026C","name":"NAUTA GORDON W","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4026C is an Universal Stinson 108-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palmdale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2002 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated April 22, 2014. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Nauta Gordon W, an individual, certificate issued May 30, 2002, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 22, 2014, 66 years after the 1948 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 108-5026 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N4026C according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 14, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N4026C. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"108-5026","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"38016 RAINER DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00981054","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4026C","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1948,"zip":"935523229"}