{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-10-24","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-10-15","city":"MINERAL WELLS","country_code":"US","county_code":"497","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"01514","engine_horsepower":904,"engine_maker":"AIRESEARCH","engine_model":"TPE331 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Swearingen","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SWEARINGEN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8780406","mode_s_code":"51434230","mode_s_hex":"A63898","model":"SA226-T(B)","n_number":"N50LG","name":"UPHAM CHESTER R III","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N50LG is a Swearingen SA226-T(B), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1979. It has 11 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mineral Wells, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 15, 2010 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 24, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Upham Chester R III, an individual, certificate issued October 15, 2010, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated October 24, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T315 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N50LG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robertson Aircraft Corp BIRD (serial 1S014, cancelled November 6, 1997). 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 N50LG. 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":11,"serial_number":"T315","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 579","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00590587","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N50LG","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"760680579"}