{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1986-05-30","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-04-01","city":"WASILLA","country_code":"US","county_code":"170","cruise_speed_mph":127,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17032","engine_horsepower":285,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO 520 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072821","mode_s_code":"51422516","mode_s_hex":"A6254E","model":"A185F","n_number":"N4952E","name":"HESS MICHAEL D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ANCHORAGE","damage":"MINR","date":"1997-06-24","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC97IA089","probable_cause":"The pilot-in-command's failure to retract the landing gear which led to an inadvertent water landing with the amphibian float wheels extended.  Associated factors are the pilot's habit interference and the FAA inspector's inadequate monitoring of the flight.","registration":"N4952E","state":"AK","summary":"Incident on June 24, 1997 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"HESS JEANNIE M","plain_english":"N4952E is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 30, 1986.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hess Michael D, a co-owned, certificate issued April 1, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 30, 1986, 7 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503918 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N4952E according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N4952E: Incident on June 24, 1997 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, minor 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":6,"serial_number":"18503918","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2405 S DAVIS RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00660705","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4952E","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"996540525"}