{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1994-05-18","airworthiness_ops":"To show compliance with regulations","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1994-04-14","city":"FORT BELVOIR","country_code":"US","county_code":"600","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52032","engine_horsepower":750,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"PT6A SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Dehavilland","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DEHAVILLAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2802710","mode_s_code":"51552613","mode_s_hex":"A6D58B","model":"DHC-7-103","n_number":"N53993","name":"UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":4,"other_names":"DEPT OF THE ARMY","plain_english":"N53993 is a Dehavilland DHC-7-103, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1985. It has 55 seats. It is registered to United States Government, a government body in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 1994 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated May 18, 1994.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to United States Government, a government body, certificate issued April 14, 1994, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 18, 1994, 9 years after the 1985 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 104 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N53993 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N53993. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":55,"serial_number":"104","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"HQUSAINSCOM ATTN ACOFS G-4 IALO-T","street2":"8825 BEULAH ST","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00362995","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N53993","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1985,"zip":"220605246"}