{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1988-06-22","airworthiness_ops":"Aerial advertising","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-03-23","city":"CAPE MAY CH","country_code":"US","county_code":"009","cruise_speed_mph":82,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41506","engine_horsepower":140,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-290 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-23","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7101202","mode_s_code":"51215673","mode_s_hex":"A51BBB","model":"PA-12","n_number":"N4280M","name":"CAPE MAY AERIAL ADVERTISING LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"GREEN CREEK","damage":"SUBS","date":"1992-08-05","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"NYC92LA142","probable_cause":"THE PILOT DIVERTED HIS ATTENTION FROM FLYING THE AIRPLANE AND DID NOT MAINTAIN A VISUAL LOOKOUT, WHICH RESULTED IN A COLLISION WITH TREES.","registration":"N4280M","state":"NJ","summary":"Accident on August 5, 1992 at Green Creek, NJ: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4280M is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Cape May Aerial Advertising LLC, an LLC in Cape May Ch, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated June 22, 1988.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Cape May Aerial Advertising LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 23, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 22, 1988, 41 years after the 1947 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 12-3208 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N4280M 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 N4280M: Accident on August 5, 1992 at Green Creek, NJ: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":3,"serial_number":"12-3208","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NJ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"317 ROUTE 47 S","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00531934","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4280M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1947,"zip":"082102532"}