{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-04-04","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-08-15","city":"NUTLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":126,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41511","engine_horsepower":200,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"I0360 SER A&C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-10","maker":"Mooney","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MOONEY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5870219","mode_s_code":"51267604","mode_s_hex":"A56F84","model":"M20J","n_number":"N4498H","name":"WESTERVELT SUSAN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PECOS","damage":"SUBS","date":"2001-03-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW01LA090","probable_cause":"the pilot's failure to obtain a proper glide path during landing, which resulted in the airplane's impact with terrain short of the runway.  Contributory factors were the open baggage door and the pilot's diverted attention to the open door.","registration":"N4498H","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on March 30, 2001 at Pecos, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4498H is a Mooney M20J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nutley, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 4, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Westervelt Susan, an individual, certificate issued August 15, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated April 4, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-0787 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4498H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-15 (serial 15-287, cancelled June 1, 1949). 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 N4498H: Accident on March 30, 2001 at Pecos, TX: no injuries, substantial 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"24-0787","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NJ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"67 KENZEL AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00922704","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4498H","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"071101041"}