{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1956-06-21","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-10-17","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":94,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52008","engine_horsepower":450,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R-985 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Naval Aircraft Factory","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NAVAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"6120202","mode_s_code":"51276150","mode_s_hex":"A57C68","model":"N3N-3","n_number":"N45234","name":"DB AERO INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N45234 is a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Db Aero INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 21, 1956.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Db Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 17, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 21, 1956, 16 years after the 1940 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 1977 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N45234 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N45234. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"1977","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3511 SILVERSIDE RD STE 105","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00352824","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N45234","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1940,"zip":"198104902"}