{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1997-07-18","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-11-23","city":"LE MARS","country_code":"US","county_code":"149","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"09050","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"BOMBARDIER","engine_model":"ROTAX (ALL)","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-11-23","maker":"Mcmeekin Thomas William","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MCMEEKIN THOMAS WILLIAM","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05624R4","mode_s_code":"51526307","mode_s_hex":"A6ACC7","model":"KITFOX III","n_number":"N5290T","name":"ULTRA FLIGHT LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MONTEREY PARK","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-03-03","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX91FA116","probable_cause":"SUICIDE.","registration":"N5290T","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on March 3, 1991 at Monterey Park, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5290T is a Mcmeekin Thomas William KITFOX III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ultra Flight LLC, an LLC in Le Mars, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 18, 1997.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ultra Flight LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 23, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur 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 949 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5290T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R7235217, cancelled June 17, 1991). 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 N5290T: Accident on March 3, 1991 at Monterey Park, CA: fatal, destroyed (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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"949","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1621 AIRPORT DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00094702","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5290T","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"510311852"}