{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1984-05-08","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-11-15","city":"JASPER","country_code":"US","county_code":"127","cruise_speed_mph":86,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17026","engine_horsepower":230,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"O-470 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-11-15","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2074016","mode_s_code":"51475701","mode_s_hex":"A67BC1","model":"L-19E","n_number":"N517DF","name":"FORREST MICHAEL D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N517DF is a Cessna L-19E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jasper, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 2018 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 8, 1984.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Forrest Michael D, an individual, certificate issued November 15, 2018, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 8, 1984, 27 years after the 1957 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 24517 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N517DF 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N517DF. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"24517","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3516 LAMON CHAPEL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00902994","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N517DF","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1957,"zip":"355034110"}