{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-08-03","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-11-05","city":"CRESTVIEW","country_code":"US","county_code":"093","cruise_speed_mph":376,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52052","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"JT12A-8","engine_thrust_lb":3300,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"North American","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NORTH AMERICAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"6402608","mode_s_code":"51125360","mode_s_hex":"A4AAF0","model":"NA-265-40","n_number":"N40GT","name":"SUNSHINE AERO INDUSTRIES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N40GT is a North American NA-265-40, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1973. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Sunshine Aero Industries INC, a corporation in Crestview, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated August 3, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sunshine Aero Industries INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 5, 2009, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 3, 2025, 52 years after the 1973 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 282126 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N40GT 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 N40GT. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":9,"serial_number":"282126","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3164 AIRPORT RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbojet","type_engine_code":"4","unique_id":"00070944","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N40GT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1973,"zip":"325397110"}