{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1997-03-04","airworthiness_ops":"To show compliance with regulations","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-02","city":"HUNTINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"069","cruise_speed_mph":141,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52016","engine_horsepower":600,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R1340 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-02","maker":"North American","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NORTH AMERICAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"6400416","mode_s_code":"51472623","mode_s_hex":"A67593","model":"AT-6D","n_number":"N515SA","name":"VINTAGE FLYING MACHINES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Huntington","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-05-02","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN22LA193","probable_cause":"Loss of directional control during landing that resulted in an impact with terrain.","registration":"N515SA","state":"IN","summary":"Accident on May 2, 2022 at Huntington, IN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N515SA is a North American AT-6D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vintage Flying Machines INC, a corporation in Huntington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 4, 1997.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Vintage Flying Machines INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 2, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 4, 1997, 54 years after the 1943 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 8814953 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N515SA 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 N515SA: Accident on May 2, 2022 at Huntington, IN: no 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"8814953","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1355 WACO DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00436171","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N515SA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1943,"zip":"467500008"}