{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2023-07-05","airworthiness_ops":"Operating light-sport kit-built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-03-27","city":"BANGOR","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55572","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912ULS SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-27","maker":"Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RAINBOW SKYREACH (PTY) LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"069002N","mode_s_code":"51506301","mode_s_hex":"A68CC1","model":"BUSHCAT","n_number":"N521BC","name":"ST LOUIS MICHAEL A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hammonton","damage":"SUBS","date":"2011-08-20","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA11FA468","probable_cause":"The Lancair pilot's failure to see and avoid the aerobatic airplane. Contributing to the accident was the Lancair pilot's inadequate use of collision avoidance strategies while inbound to an area of known potential aerobatic activity.","registration":"N521BC","state":"NJ","summary":"Accident on August 20, 2011 at Hammonton, NJ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N521BC is a Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bangor, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated July 5, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to St Louis Michael A, an individual, certificate issued March 27, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH185C for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N521BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Yakovlev YAK-55M (serial 961007, cancelled October 6, 2011). 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":"1 NTSB record under N521BC: Accident on August 20, 2011 at Hammonton, NJ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"CH185C","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ME","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"125 BURLEIGH RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01396514","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N521BC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"044012509"}