{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2004-04-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-08-29","city":"GALLATIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"165","cruise_speed_mph":87,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41505","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-235 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-29","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7101602","mode_s_code":"51263566","mode_s_hex":"A56776","model":"PA-16","n_number":"N4473Y","name":"JACKSON ROBERT S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MONTROSE","damage":"DEST","date":"1983-08-26","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"DEN83LA199","probable_cause":"","registration":"N4473Y","state":"SD","summary":"Accident on August 26, 1983 at Montrose, SD: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4473Y is a Piper PA-16, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gallatin, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 20, 2004.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Jackson Robert S, an individual, certificate issued August 29, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 2004, 55 years after the 1949 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 16-375 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4473Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company A36 (serial E-3403, cancelled September 25, 2001); Piper PA-25-235 (serial 254130, cancelled date not given). 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 N4473Y: Accident on August 26, 1983 at Montrose, SD: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"16-375","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1803 HARTSVILLE PIKE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00085269","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4473Y","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1949,"zip":"370668306"}