{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1982-09-30","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-12-30","city":"GUEYDAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":82,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17003","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"A&C65 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-12-30","maker":"A D Kinkead","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"A D KINKEAD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"003013P","mode_s_code":"51274332","mode_s_hex":"A578DA","model":"BABY ACE","n_number":"N4515","name":"BABIN CHRIS C","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4515 is an A D Kinkead BABY ACE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Gueydan, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 30, 1982.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Babin Chris C, an individual, certificate issued December 30, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 30, 1982, 13 years after the 1969 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 45A.D.K. for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4515 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Alexander LONG WING EAGLEROCK (serial 407, 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N4515. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"45A.D.K.","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"LA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"805 5TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00632774","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4515","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1969,"zip":"705423205"}