{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1994-06-03","airworthiness_ops":"Other; Weather control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-12-09","city":"ATHENS","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":162,"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":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103110","mode_s_code":"51146701","mode_s_hex":"A4CDC1","model":"PA-31-350","n_number":"N40872","name":"OLE SOUTH AVIATORS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WILLOW","damage":"SUBS","date":"1990-04-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC90LA054","probable_cause":"IMPROPER INSTALLATION OF THE FUEL VALVE.","registration":"N40872","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on April 13, 1990 at Willow, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N40872 is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Ole South Aviators LLC, an LLC in Athens, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other; weather control, dated June 3, 1994.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ole South Aviators LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for other; weather control; 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 31-8152134 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N40872 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-7425183, cancelled April 29, 1974); Piper J5A (serial 5-1177, cancelled August 13, 1958). 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 N40872: Accident on April 13, 1990 at Willow, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":8,"serial_number":"31-8152134","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3900 ATLANTA HWY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00741284","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N40872","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"306060811"}