{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1985-05-24","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-07-22","city":"SALMON","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":92,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41530","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-09-10","maker":"Britten-Norman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BRITTEN-NORMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1520220","mode_s_code":"51254462","mode_s_hex":"A55932","model":"BN-2A-20","n_number":"N4438","name":"SPIRIT AIR INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4438 is a Britten-Norman BN-2A-20, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Spirit Air INC, a corporation in Salmon, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 24, 1985.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Spirit Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 22, 2008, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 1985, 9 years after the 1976 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 766 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4438 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Alexander Aircraft Co COMBINATION EAGLEROC (serial 430, cancelled April 4, 1930). 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 N4438. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":10,"serial_number":"766","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ID","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"C/O GEN AIR","street2":"31 HAMNER DR","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00870145","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4438","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"834675107"}