{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1994-04-26","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-03-31","city":"HARTLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"133","cruise_speed_mph":150,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 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-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102304","mode_s_code":"51522616","mode_s_hex":"A6A58E","model":"PA-23-160","n_number":"N5272A","name":"WELCH KEVIN R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WEST CHICAGO","damage":"SUBS","date":"1994-09-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI94LA351","probable_cause":"the pilot's failure to use the manual hydraulic pump to lower the landing gear.  Factors were the failure of the fuel selector handle, the subsequent fuel starvation, and the pilot's failure to properly crossfeed and restart the left engine.","registration":"N5272A","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on September 30, 1994 at West Chicago, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5272A is a Piper PA-23-160, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hartland, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 26, 1994.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Welch Kevin R, an individual, certificate issued March 31, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 26, 1994, 33 years after the 1961 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 23-2019 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5272A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 210N (serial 21063339, cancelled December 29, 1980); Cessna 310 (serial 35472, cancelled January 8, 1957). 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 N5272A: Accident on September 30, 1994 at West Chicago, IL: 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":5,"serial_number":"23-2019","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1018 PARKVIEW ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00175978","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5272A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1961,"zip":"530299332"}