{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1995-08-15","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-06-21","city":"BRIDGEPORT","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":162,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41533","engine_horsepower":310,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TI0-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103110","mode_s_code":"51175300","mode_s_hex":"A4FAC0","model":"PA-31-350","n_number":"N42RC","name":"RCI AIR INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N42RC is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Rci Air INC, a corporation in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 15, 1995.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rci Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 21, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 15, 1995, 15 years after the 1980 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 31-8052170 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N42RC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Campolattara Anthony SONERAI II (serial 166, cancelled February 10, 2010). 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 N42RC. 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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":8,"serial_number":"31-8052170","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"10 E MAIN ST STE 301","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00095838","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N42RC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1980,"zip":"06608"}