{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2001-04-12","city":"SAVOY","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102816","mode_s_code":"51535151","mode_s_hex":"A6BA69","model":"PA-28R-201","n_number":"N5321U","name":"UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MANSFIELD","damage":"DEST","date":"1989-06-04","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"SEA89FA099","probable_cause":"FAILURE OF THE LEFT WING MAIN SPAR DUE TO OVERLOAD FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS.","registration":"N5321U","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on June 4, 1989 at Mansfield, WA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"BOARD OF TRUSTEES","plain_english":"N5321U is a Piper PA-28R-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to University Of Illinois, a government body in Savoy, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2001 and expires on January 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to University Of Illinois, a government body, certificate issued April 12, 2001, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2844042 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5321U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cushing Leonard H CUSHING 4 (serial 712, cancelled September 20, 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 N5321U: Accident on June 4, 1989 at Mansfield, WA: fatal, destroyed (2 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":4,"serial_number":"2844042","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"UNIV OF ILLINOIS WILLARD ARPT","street2":"1 AIRPORT RD","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00883744","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5321U","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"61874"}