{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1969-06-12","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1997-03-18","city":"AMANA","country_code":"US","county_code":"095","cruise_speed_mph":150,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41533","engine_horsepower":310,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TI0-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102308","mode_s_code":"51263107","mode_s_hex":"A56647","model":"PA-23-250","n_number":"N447T","name":"THOMPSON SYSTEMS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WINDER","damage":"DEST","date":"1996-03-15","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ATL96FA066","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain visual flight conditions which resulted in the loss of control and subsequent inflight breakup of the airplane when he exceeded the design stress limits of the airframe.","registration":"N447T","state":"GA","summary":"Accident on March 15, 1996 at Winder, GA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N447T is a Piper PA-23-250, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Thompson Systems INC, a corporation in Amana, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 1997 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 12, 1969.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Thompson Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 18, 1997, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated June 12, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27-4288 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N447T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310R (serial 310R0251, cancelled May 28, 1998). 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 N447T: Accident on March 15, 1996 at Winder, GA: fatal, destroyed (1 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":6,"serial_number":"27-4288","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"950 48TH AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00300337","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N447T","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1969,"zip":"522038032"}