{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2015-05-12","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-08-18","city":"MILFORD","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":93,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41532","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-540 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-10","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102508","mode_s_code":"51430527","mode_s_hex":"A63157","model":"PA-25-260","n_number":"N4988Y","name":"VAN KLEEK STEVE D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HAZELTON","damage":"DEST","date":"1990-06-22","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"DEN90LA140","probable_cause":"THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT IN COMMAND TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT DURING AERIAL APPLICATION MANEUVERING.","registration":"N4988Y","state":"ND","summary":"Accident on June 22, 1990 at Hazelton, ND: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"VAN KLEEK MATT S","plain_english":"N4988Y is a Piper PA-25-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Milford, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 12, 2015.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Van Kleek Steve D, a co-owned, certificate issued August 18, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 12, 2015, 47 years after the 1968 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 25-4797 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N4988Y 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 N4988Y: Accident on June 22, 1990 at Hazelton, ND: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"25-4797","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2326 270TH AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00690785","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4988Y","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1968,"zip":"513517115"}