{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2016-01-28","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-04-19","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52265","engine_horsepower":850,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6A-41","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"LANCAIR INTL INC","kit_model":"EVOLUTION","last_action_date":"2023-07-28","maker":"Evolution Builders Llc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EVOLUTION BUILDERS LLC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056333E","mode_s_code":"51270061","mode_s_hex":"A57031","model":"LANCAIR EVOLUTION","n_number":"N45EK","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N45EK is an Evolution Builders Llc LANCAIR EVOLUTION, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to , an LLC. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 28, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, an LLC, certificate issued April 19, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 28, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial EVO-0009 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N45EK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Evermann/Kelly AVID FLYER (serial 45, cancelled December 1, 1994). 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 N45EK. 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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"EVO-0009","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01170396","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N45EK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2015,"zip":""}