{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1998-02-13","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-02-18","city":"CASPER","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"01514","engine_horsepower":904,"engine_maker":"AIRESEARCH","engine_model":"TPE331 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-02-18","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7104225","mode_s_code":"51264210","mode_s_hex":"A56888","model":"PA-42-1000","n_number":"N448CA","name":"SOUTHERN AIRCRAFT CONSULTANCY INC TRUSTEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FORT WAYNE","damage":"MINR","date":"1988-04-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI88IA096","probable_cause":"INADEQUATE DESIGN OF THE STRUT FOR THE INTENDED SERVICE CONDITIONS IN COMMUTER AIR CARRIER OPERATIONS.","registration":"N448CA","state":"IN","summary":"Incident on April 8, 1988 at Fort Wayne, IN: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N448CA is a Piper PA-42-1000, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 13, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued February 18, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; 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 425527034 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N448CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild SA227-AC (serial AC448, cancelled July 29, 1994). 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 N448CA: Incident on April 8, 1988 at Fort Wayne, IN: no injuries, minor 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":11,"serial_number":"425527034","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"330 S CENTER ST STE 300","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00433207","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N448CA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"826012873"}