{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1962-07-26","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-03-25","city":"ELGIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":98,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"35006","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"JACOBS","engine_model":"R755A SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-07","maker":"Grumman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3952702","mode_s_code":"51473050","mode_s_hex":"A67628","model":"G-164","n_number":"N515Y","name":"MIDWEST FLYING SERVICE INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N515Y is a Grumman G-164, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Midwest Flying Service INC, a corporation in Elgin, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2009 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 26, 1962.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Midwest Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 25, 2009, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 26, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 147 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N515Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: American Eaglecraft EAGLET 230 (serial 1060, cancelled March 29, 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 N515Y. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"147","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"83894 513 AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00692115","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N515Y","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1962,"zip":"686363281"}