{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2006-07-14","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Acrobatic","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-10-22","city":"CARSON CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"510","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59250","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"SUPERIOR","engine_model":"O-360 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"American Champion Aircraft","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AMERICAN CHAMPION AIRCRAFT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2121002","mode_s_code":"51425034","mode_s_hex":"A62A1C","model":"7GCAA","n_number":"N497AC","name":"SWEST PROPERTIES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Baker","damage":"SUBS","date":"2011-11-15","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR12CA043","probable_cause":"The pilot's delayed decision to perform an aborted landing.","registration":"N497AC","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on November 15, 2011 at Baker, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N497AC is an American Champion Aircraft 7GCAA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Swest Properties LLC, an LLC in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 14, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Swest Properties LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 22, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated July 14, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 497-2005 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N497AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 208B (serial 208B0497, cancelled April 24, 2001). 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 N497AC: Accident on November 15, 2011 at Baker, CA: 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"497-2005","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NV","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1805 N CARSON ST # 470","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00177279","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N497AC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2005,"zip":"897011216"}