{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2000-10-18","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-03-29","city":"PHILADELPHIA","country_code":"US","county_code":"101","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"33730","engine_horsepower":80,"engine_maker":"HIRTH","engine_model":"F30","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-03-29","maker":"Johnson C H","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JOHNSON C H","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05606A6","mode_s_code":"51252635","mode_s_hex":"A5559D","model":"JOHNSON KITFOX 1-A","n_number":"N44289","name":"BENJAMIN DAVID","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WAWAYANDA","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-08-07","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"NYC91FA205","probable_cause":"THE PILOT STARTED A SPIN MANEUVER AT TOO LOW AN ALTITUDE TO ALLOW RECOVERY.  A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS SCATTERED CLOUDS AT 2500 FEEL MSL.","registration":"N44289","state":"NY","summary":"Accident on August 7, 1991 at Wawayanda, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N44289 is a Johnson C H JOHNSON KITFOX 1-A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 18, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Benjamin David, an individual, certificate issued March 29, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial J-98-01 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N44289 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 287425400, cancelled January 30, 1992); Taylorcraft BC12-D1 (serial 10089, cancelled February 29, 1956). 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 N44289: Accident on August 7, 1991 at Wawayanda, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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":2,"serial_number":"J-98-01","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"632 N 2ND ST STE 300","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00337211","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N44289","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"191233033"}