{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1994-09-22","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1995-05-26","city":"GARBER","country_code":"US","county_code":"047","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-17","maker":"Wsk Pzl Mielec","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"WSK PZL MIELEC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9810104","mode_s_code":"51523152","mode_s_hex":"A6A66A","model":"M-18 DROMADER","n_number":"N5278L","name":"CARSON JOHN D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"CARSON GLEN W","plain_english":"N5278L is a Wsk Pzl Mielec M-18 DROMADER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Garber, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 1995 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated September 22, 1994.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Carson John D, a co-owned, certificate issued May 26, 1995, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated September 22, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1Z 017-26 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5278L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 284577, cancelled October 10, 1990). 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 N5278L. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"1Z 017-26","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 367","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00834902","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5278L","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1994,"zip":"737380367"}