{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1981-06-12","airworthiness_ops":"Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-10-28","city":"NANTUCKET","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":138,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17032","engine_horsepower":285,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO 520 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-28","maker":"Beech","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BEECH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1151604","mode_s_code":"51151654","mode_s_hex":"A4D3AC","model":"A36","n_number":"N41VK","name":"GALAXY AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Summerland Key","damage":"SUBS","date":"2020-01-25","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA20LA089","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to remove the flight control gust lock before takeoff, which resulted in an inability to rotate, aborted takeoff, and subsequent runway overrun. Contributing to the accident was a missing piece of the flight control gust lock, which did not give the pilot the intended warning that the gust lock was engaged.","registration":"N41VK","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on January 25, 2020 at Summerland Key, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Summerland Key","damage":"SUBS","date":"2018-11-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA19TA067","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s inadvertent retraction of the landing gear during landing rollout, resulting in a landing gear collapse.","registration":"N41VK","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on November 23, 2018 at Summerland Key, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Captiva Island","damage":"DEST","date":"2003-02-28","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"MIA03FA068","probable_cause":"The pilot's VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions and his ensuing failure to maintain altitude/clearance resulting in an in-flight collision with the ocean.  A factor was the fog.","registration":"N41VK","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on February 28, 2003 at Captiva Island, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N41VK is a Beech A36, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Galaxy Aviation LLC, an LLC in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated June 12, 1981.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Galaxy Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 28, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for utility, dated June 12, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E-1885 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N41VK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 36 (serial E-146, cancelled January 25, 2006). 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":"3 NTSB records under N41VK: Accident on January 25, 2020 at Summerland Key, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 23, 2018 at Summerland Key, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 28, 2003 at Captiva Island, FL: fatal, destroyed (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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"E-1885","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"46 SURFSIDE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00752600","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N41VK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"025542864"}