{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2022-07-30","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-01-28","city":"SPRING","country_code":"US","county_code":"201","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17215","engine_horsepower":310,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO-550-N","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-02-14","maker":"Cirrus Design Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CIRRUS DESIGN CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2130001","mode_s_code":"51176500","mode_s_hex":"A4FD40","model":"SR22","n_number":"N420SS","name":"ZARDOZ AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Tomball","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-09-01","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN22FA405","probable_cause":"The flight instructor\u2019s inadequate supervision of the flight, which allowed for an unintentional movement of the mixture control to the cutoff position that remained unnoticed until the airplane lost engine power due to fuel starvation and descended below the minimum altitude required for a normal deployment of the airframe parachute system. \n\nContributing to the accident was the impairment of the pilot due to his illness, the flight instructor being distracted by his physiological distress, and the apparent lack of communication between the pilot and flight instructor about who was responsible for the safety of the flight, all of which created a situation where neither individual was adequately monitoring the engine operation during a critical phase of flight.","registration":"N420SS","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on September 1, 2022 at Tomball, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N420SS is a Cirrus Design Corp SR22, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Zardoz Aviation INC, a corporation in Spring, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 30, 2022.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Zardoz Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 28, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated July 30, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8750 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N420SS 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":"1 NTSB record under N420SS: Accident on September 1, 2022 at Tomball, TX: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"8750","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"10002 OXTED LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01368077","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N420SS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"773796669"}