{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2007-06-19","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-12-21","city":"SANFORD","country_code":"US","county_code":"117","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17160","engine_horsepower":210,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO-360-ES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Cirrus Design Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CIRRUS DESIGN CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2130000","mode_s_code":"51346213","mode_s_hex":"A5CC8B","model":"SR20","n_number":"N473DA","name":"AEROSIM ACADEMY INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DALLAS/FT WORTH","damage":"DEST","date":"1988-08-31","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DCA88MA072","probable_cause":"(1) THE CAPTAIN AND FIRST OFFICER'S INADEQUATE COCKPIT DISCIPLINE WHICH RESULTED IN THE FLIGHTCREW'S ATTEMPT TO TAKEOFF WITHOUT THE WING FLAPS AND SLATS PROPERLY CONFIGURED; AND (2) THE FAILURE OF THE TAKEOFF CONFIGURATION WARNING SYSTEM TO ALERT THE CREW THAT THE AIRPLANE WAS NOT PROPERLY CONFIGURED FOR THE TAKEOFF.  CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS DELTA'S SLOW IMPLEMENTATION OF NECESSARY MODIFICATIONS TO ITS OPERATING PROCEDURES, MANUAL'S, CHECKLISTS, TRAINING, AND CREW CHECKING PROGRAMS WHICH WERE NECESSITATED BY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE AIRLINE FOLLOWING RAPID GROWTH AND MERGER.  ALSO CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE LACK OF SUFFICIENTLY AGGRESSIVE ACTION BY THE FAA TO HAVE KNOWN DEFICIENCIES CORRECTED BY DELTA AND THE LACK OF SUFFICIENT ACCOUNTABILITY WITHIN THE FAA'S AIR CARRIER INSPECTION PROCESS.","registration":"N473DA","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on August 31, 1988 at Dallas/Ft Worth, TX: fatal, destroyed (14 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N473DA is a Cirrus Design Corp SR20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aerosim Academy INC, a corporation in Sanford, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 19, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Aerosim Academy INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 21, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated June 19, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1798 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N473DA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 727-232 (serial 20750, cancelled July 27, 1989). 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 N473DA: Accident on August 31, 1988 at Dallas/Ft Worth, TX: fatal, destroyed (14 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"1798","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2700 FLIGHTLINE AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00368839","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N473DA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2007,"zip":"327739683"}