{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1994-10-13","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-06-03","city":"HELENA","country_code":"US","county_code":"049","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-03","maker":"Yakovlev","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"YAKOVLEV","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9830224","mode_s_code":"51525130","mode_s_hex":"A6AA58","model":"YAK-55M","n_number":"N52896","name":"WHISKEY BEND HOLDINGS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CINCINNATI","damage":"SUBS","date":"1989-07-22","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ATL89LA183","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S IMPROPER GO-AROUND PROCEDURE OF FULLY RETRACTING THE FLAPS WHICH RESULTED IN THE AIRPLANE MUSHING INTO TREES. CONTRIBUTING FACTOR(S) WAS: A MISJUDGEMENT OF FLARE HEIGHT ABOVE THE RUNWAY AND FAILURE TO REMOVE THE CARBURETOR HEAT WHICH MAY HAVE PREVENTED THE AVAILABILITY OF FULL POWER.","registration":"N52896","state":"OH","summary":"Accident on July 22, 1989 at Cincinnati, OH: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N52896 is a Yakovlev YAK-55M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Whiskey Bend Holdings LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 13, 1994.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Whiskey Bend Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 3, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated October 13, 1994, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 920504 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N52896 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274631, cancelled November 14, 1989); Cessna T-50 (serial 3528, cancelled October 21, 1955). 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 N52896: Accident on July 22, 1989 at Cincinnati, OH: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"920504","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"55 W 14TH ST STE 101","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00405122","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N52896","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1992,"zip":"596013387"}