{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2019-05-23","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition; Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-07-30","city":"BOULDER","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Schempp-Hirth","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"SCHEMPP-HIRTH","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"38019VS","mode_s_code":"51174571","mode_s_hex":"A4F979","model":"DISCUS CS","n_number":"N42CA","name":"SOARING SOCIETY OF BOULDER INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Freehold","damage":"SUBS","date":"2007-07-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ATL07CA101","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadvertent activation of the tow release handle at a low altitude following an encounter with turbulence.","registration":"N42CA","state":"NY","summary":"Accident on July 1, 2007 at Freehold, NY: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N42CA is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS, a glider with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Soaring Society Of Boulder INC, a corporation in Boulder, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 23, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Soaring Society Of Boulder INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 30, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 23, 2019, 22 years after the 1997 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 239CS for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N42CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman G-159 (serial 137, cancelled June 6, 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 N42CA: Accident on July 1, 2007 at Freehold, NY: no 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"239CS","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 17577","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00676931","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N42CA","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"803080577"}