{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2007-03-22","airworthiness_ops":"Airplane","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"STEELE","country_code":"US","county_code":"043","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":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-08","maker":"Flight Design Gmbh","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FLIGHT DESIGN GMBH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0600001","mode_s_code":"51532150","mode_s_hex":"A6B468","model":"CTSW","n_number":"N531CT","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Casa Grande","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-10-17","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR26LA022","probable_cause":"","registration":"N531CT","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on October 17, 2025 at Casa Grande, AZ: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N531CT is a Flight Design Gmbh CTSW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Steele, North Dakota. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported\". It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated March 22, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Light sport certificate for airplane, dated March 22, 2007, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 06-12-11 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N531CT according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N531CT: Accident on October 17, 2025 at Casa Grande, AZ: minor 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":2,"serial_number":"06-12-11","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ND","status":"Sale reported","status_code":"7","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"110 4TH ST NE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"00318899","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N531CT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2006,"zip":"584827042"}