{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-11-21","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-12-02","city":"WOODSTOCK","country_code":"US","county_code":"057","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41584","engine_horsepower":285,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-520 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2074245","mode_s_code":"51245051","mode_s_hex":"A54A29","model":"310R","n_number":"N44VK","name":"BATES MANAGEMENT INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DULUTH","damage":"DEST","date":"1996-03-22","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI96FA116","probable_cause":"the inadequate handling/performance design capabilities of the airplane which resulted in the inability to recover from an aft center of gravity spin.  Factors were the lack of any antispin or deep stall recovery devices, and the aft center of gravity.","registration":"N44VK","state":"MN","summary":"Accident on March 22, 1996 at Duluth, MN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N44VK is a Cessna 310R, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Bates Management INC, a corporation in Woodstock, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 21, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bates Management INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 2, 2005, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 21, 2001, 22 years after the 1979 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 310R1689 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N44VK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corporation VK-30 (serial 2993, cancelled July 8, 1996). 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 N44VK: Accident on March 22, 1996 at Duluth, MN: 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":6,"serial_number":"310R1689","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"229 ARNOLD MILL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00383837","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N44VK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"301884145"}