{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2008-09-06","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-05-04","city":"RAINIER","country_code":"US","county_code":"009","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55558","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"582UL","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"light-sport","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Simpson Laurence Ray","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIMPSON LAURENCE RAY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05627FP","mode_s_code":"51245650","mode_s_hex":"A54BA8","model":"AMPHIBEOUS TRIKE","n_number":"N440LS","name":"GATES LARRY J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Chehalis","damage":"SUBS","date":"2014-01-25","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR14LA104","probable_cause":"The failure of the left wing prong.","registration":"N440LS","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on January 25, 2014 at Chehalis, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Lake Chelan","damage":"SUBS","date":"2008-09-23","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"SEA08LA207","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed during the initial climb, which resulted in an inadvertent aerodynamic stall. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of experience in the float-equipped, weight-shift airplane.","registration":"N440LS","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on September 23, 2008 at Lake Chelan, WA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N440LS is a Simpson Laurence Ray AMPHIBEOUS TRIKE, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rainier, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2010 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 6, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gates Larry J, an individual, certificate issued May 4, 2010, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 6, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial H20041 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N440LS 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":"2 NTSB records under N440LS: Accident on January 25, 2014 at Chehalis, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 23, 2008 at Lake Chelan, WA: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"H20041","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 535","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Weight-shift control","type_aircraft_code":"7","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"01013871","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N440LS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2008,"zip":"970480535"}