{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2023-08-29","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-07-03","city":"GRANBURY","country_code":"US","county_code":"221","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55620","engine_horsepower":135,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"915 IS","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gyroplanes","kit_mfr":"AUTOGYRO GMBH","kit_model":"CAVALON","last_action_date":"2023-07-03","maker":"Michael S Lewis","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MICHAEL S LEWIS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05641WX","mode_s_code":"51167010","mode_s_hex":"A4EE08","model":"CAVALON","n_number":"N4169L","name":"LEWIS MICHAEL S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4169L is a Michael S Lewis CAVALON, a gyroplane with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Granbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 3, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 29, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lewis Michael S, an individual, certificate issued July 3, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 29, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial V00566 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4169L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172G (serial 17254238, cancelled March 10, 2017). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N4169L. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"V00566","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1229 PRESTWICK CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Gyroplane","type_aircraft_code":"9","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01410929","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4169L","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"760484018"}