{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1972-10-28","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-01-04","city":"BALTIMORE","country_code":"US","county_code":"510","cruise_speed_mph":107,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41532","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-540 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-01-04","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102810","mode_s_code":"51220435","mode_s_hex":"A5211D","model":"PA-28-235","n_number":"N43DN","name":"MURPHY JOHN R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Manchester","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-02-26","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ERA25LA130","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s improper decision to continue the visual flight rules flight into instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in the accumulation of airframe icing and a subsequent aerodynamic stall/spin.","registration":"N43DN","state":"VT","summary":"Accident on February 26, 2025 at Manchester, VT: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N43DN is a Piper PA-28-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Baltimore, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 28, 1972.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Murphy John R, an individual, certificate issued January 4, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated October 28, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7310036 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N43DN 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 N43DN: Accident on February 26, 2025 at Manchester, VT: serious 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"28-7310036","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5647 BELLE GROVE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00231860","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N43DN","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1972,"zip":"212253369"}