{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1996-06-19","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-08-26","city":"MELROSE","country_code":"US","county_code":"145","cruise_speed_mph":97,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-25","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7101802","mode_s_code":"51445537","mode_s_hex":"A64B5F","model":"PA-18","n_number":"N5041Z","name":"NIETFELD ROGER C","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"ELLERING CHRISTOPHER A","plain_english":"N5041Z is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Melrose, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 19, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Nietfeld Roger C, a co-owned, certificate issued August 26, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 19, 1996, 45 years after the 1951 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 18-585 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5041Z was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Hughes 269C (serial 711070, cancelled April 1, 1982); Piper PA-22 (serial 22-8661, cancelled January 25, 1971); Moddrell C L TIERRA II (serial 6101, cancelled date not given). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N5041Z. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"18-585","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"34255 COUNTY ROAD 31","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00970150","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5041Z","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1951,"zip":"563528522"}