{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1992-04-13","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-05-15","city":"DOLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"115","cruise_speed_mph":null,"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":"2027-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Weatherly Aviation Co Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"WEATHERLY AVIATION CO INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9630603","mode_s_code":"51327544","mode_s_hex":"A5AF64","model":"620A","n_number":"N4656M","name":"HOFER PERRY L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Doland","damage":"SUBS","date":"2003-08-10","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI03LA254","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the wires and directional control not being possible due to the failure of the brake system.  Factors contributing to the accident were the wires, the trees, and the failure of the brake system.","registration":"N4656M","state":"SD","summary":"Accident on August 10, 2003 at Doland, SD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"HOFER MIKEL D","plain_english":"N4656M is a Weatherly Aviation Co Inc 620A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Doland, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 13, 1992.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hofer Perry L, a co-owned, certificate issued May 15, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 13, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1540 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4656M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-165, cancelled December 29, 1948). 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 N4656M: Accident on August 10, 2003 at Doland, SD: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"1540","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"17870 406TH AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00774882","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4656M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1992,"zip":"574367410"}