{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2022-05-20","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-03-28","city":"SHARPSVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"159","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55620","engine_horsepower":135,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"915 IS","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"MAGNI GYRO SRL","kit_model":"M24 ORION PLUS","last_action_date":"2023-07-21","maker":"Stephen J Thompson","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"STEPHEN J THOMPSON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05640XR","mode_s_code":"51347276","mode_s_hex":"A5CEBE","model":"M24 ORION PLUS","n_number":"N4731D","name":"THOMPSON STEPHEN J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Shell Lake","damage":"DEST","date":"2002-08-14","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI02FA247","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to refuel the airplane prior to departure leading to fuel exhaustion during the flight,  the inadequate preflight/inflight planning, and the unsuitable terrain encountered by the pilot during the forced landing attempt.  Contributing factors were the pilot being fatigued, the night lighting condition, and the corn crop.","registration":"N4731D","state":"WI","summary":"Accident on August 14, 2002 at Shell Lake, WI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4731D is a Stephen J Thompson M24 ORION PLUS, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sharpsville, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 20, 2022.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Thompson Stephen J, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 20, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24223536 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4731D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17272342, cancelled January 8, 2003); Cessna 182A (serial 34831, cancelled April 23, 1974). 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 N4731D: Accident on August 14, 2002 at Shell Lake, WI: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"24223536","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6270 N 800 W","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01362889","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4731D","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"460689236"}