{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2003-12-04","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-01-17","city":"MILFORD","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41559","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"I0-360-B1E","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"STODDARD HAMILTON","kit_model":"GLASAIR II SUPER FT","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Toop Thomas A","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TOOP THOMAS A","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05616YO","mode_s_code":"51267756","mode_s_hex":"A56FEE","model":"GLASAIR SUPER II FT","n_number":"N45BT","name":"COTTER GERALD","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Wallkill","damage":"DEST","date":"2025-09-27","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA25FA367","probable_cause":"","registration":"N45BT","state":"NY","summary":"Accident on September 27, 2025 at Wallkill, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N45BT is a Toop Thomas A GLASAIR SUPER II FT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Milford, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 4, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Cotter Gerald, an individual, certificate issued January 17, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 4, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2339 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N45BT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Thurman William F QUICKIE (serial 174, cancelled July 20, 1993). 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 N45BT: Accident on September 27, 2025 at Wallkill, NY: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"2339","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NJ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3 KELSEY FARM ROAD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00085059","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N45BT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"08848"}