{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-14","city":"MORIARTY","country_code":"US","county_code":"057","cruise_speed_mph":107,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-03-18","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102810","mode_s_code":"51467566","mode_s_hex":"A66F76","model":"PA-28-235","n_number":"N51338","name":"DESERT WIND AIRCRAFT LEASING LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N51338 is a Piper PA-28-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Desert Wind Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC in Moriarty, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Desert Wind Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 14, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-10828 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N51338 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150J (serial 15069934, cancelled January 15, 1981); Fairchild M-62A (serial T42-3565, cancelled December 22, 1948). 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 N51338. 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"28-10828","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"50 GEORGE APPLEBAY WAY HNGR 108","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00074091","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N51338","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"870358008"}