{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1999-08-19","airworthiness_ops":"Racing; Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-09-16","city":"CANYON LAKE","country_code":"US","county_code":"065","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-16","maker":"Dg-Flugzeugbau Gmbh","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DG-FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3802554","mode_s_code":"51446526","mode_s_hex":"A64D56","model":"DG-500MB","n_number":"N505JL","name":"COFFIELD ALAN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Richland","damage":"SUBS","date":"2012-06-24","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR12CA288","probable_cause":"The failure of the spoilers to retract because the right wing spoiler\u2019s lower plate became jammed, which resulted in the glider not having enough lift to make it to the runway surface.","registration":"N505JL","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on June 24, 2012 at Richland, WA: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N505JL is a Dg-Flugzeugbau Gmbh DG-500MB, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Canyon Lake, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 19, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Coffield Alan, an individual, certificate issued September 16, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 19, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5E-187B3 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N505JL 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 N505JL: Accident on June 24, 2012 at Richland, WA: 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"5E-187B3","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"22106 TREASURE ISLAND DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00565852","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N505JL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"925877604"}