{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2006-05-31","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2006-08-08","city":"SANTA FE","country_code":"US","county_code":"049","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55572","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912ULS SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Titan Aircraft","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TITAN AIRCRAFT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05901D4","mode_s_code":"51455071","mode_s_hex":"A65A39","model":"TORNADO IIS","n_number":"N5081X","name":"ELLING JOHN W","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5081X is a Titan Aircraft TORNADO IIS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated May 31, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Elling John W, an individual, certificate issued August 8, 2006, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 31, 2006, 4 years after the 2002 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 SO1912SOHK0408 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5081X was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Hughes 269C (serial 811074, cancelled July 20, 1989); Cessna U206G (serial U20605566, cancelled January 7, 1980); Champion 7GCBC (serial 144, cancelled February 16, 1972). 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 N5081X. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"SO1912SOHK0408","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"590 MONTE ALTO","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"00251259","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5081X","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"875016172"}