{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2012-10-12","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-09-02","city":"KODIAK","country_code":"US","county_code":"150","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41782","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540-L1C5","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-17","maker":"Found Acft Canada Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FOUND ACFT CANADA INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3640103","mode_s_code":"51435156","mode_s_hex":"A63A6E","model":"FBA-2C1","n_number":"N500FA","name":"KINGFISHER AIR INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Cascade","damage":"SUBS","date":"2014-09-11","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR14CA372","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.","registration":"N500FA","state":"ID","summary":"Accident on September 11, 2014 at Cascade, ID: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N500FA is a Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2C1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Kingfisher Air INC, a corporation in Kodiak, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 2, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 12, 2012.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kingfisher Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 2, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N500FA 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 N500FA: Accident on September 11, 2014 at Cascade, ID: minor 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":6,"serial_number":"40","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 2609","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01105505","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N500FA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"996152609"}