{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2005-11-28","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-07-02","city":"COLORADO SPRINGS","country_code":"US","county_code":"041","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"33988","engine_horsepower":940,"engine_maker":"HONEYWELL","engine_model":"TPE331-10R","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"C A S A","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"C A S A","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2410310","mode_s_code":"51425114","mode_s_hex":"A62A4C","model":"CN 212-200","n_number":"N497CA","name":"SPORE LTD LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Raeford","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-07-29","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA22LA348","probable_cause":"The airplane\u2019s encounter with windshear during landing, which resulted in a hard landing and separation of the right main landing gear, and the pilot\u2019s subsequent decision to leave his seat in flight, which resulted in his fall from the airplane.","registration":"N497CA","state":"NC","summary":"Accident on July 29, 2022 at Raeford, NC: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"WALDRON","damage":"DEST","date":"1999-04-04","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"FTW99FA104","probable_cause":"The pilot's encounter with adverse weather and loss of aircraft control, which resulted in exceeding the aircraft's design stress limits.  Factors were the pilot's lack of total experience in the make and model of airplane, and the icing and thunderstorm weather conditions.","registration":"N497CA","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on April 4, 1999 at Waldron, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N497CA is a C A S A CN 212-200, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1983. It has 28 seats. It is registered to Spore LTD LLC, an LLC in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 28, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Spore LTD LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 2, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 28, 2005, 22 years after the 1983 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 291 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N497CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA 46-350P (serial 4636197, cancelled July 1, 2002). 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":"2 NTSB records under N497CA: Accident on July 29, 2022 at Raeford, NC: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on April 4, 1999 at Waldron, AR: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":28,"serial_number":"291","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1777 AVIATION WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00183249","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N497CA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1983,"zip":"809162707"}