{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1998-04-17","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-09-24","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41573","engine_horsepower":200,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-360-C1F","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-07-08","maker":"Maule","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MAULE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5460188","mode_s_code":"51165120","mode_s_hex":"A4EA50","model":"MX-7-180B","n_number":"N4159K","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Edenville","damage":"SUBS","date":"2006-11-15","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI07LA024","probable_cause":"The pilot's loss of control during landing on a lake resulting in the amphibian aircraft flipping over inverted.","registration":"N4159K","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on November 15, 2006 at Edenville, MI: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4159K is a Maule MX-7-180B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 17, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated April 17, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22015C for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4159K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-150 (serial 1809108, cancelled September 7, 1995). 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 N4159K: Accident on November 15, 2006 at Edenville, MI: fatal, substantial damage (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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":5,"serial_number":"22015C","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00283786","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4159K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1998,"zip":""}