{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1993-03-12","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-05-22","city":"GERMANTOWN","country_code":"US","county_code":"157","cruise_speed_mph":94,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41506","engine_horsepower":140,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-290 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-12","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102010","mode_s_code":"51527024","mode_s_hex":"A6AE14","model":"PA-20-135","n_number":"N53A","name":"BULLER GREGORY M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N53A is a Piper PA-20-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Germantown, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 12, 1993.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Buller Gregory M, an individual, certificate issued May 22, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 12, 1993, 40 years after the 1953 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 20-926 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N53A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Danner KR-1 (serial 4366, cancelled September 2, 1976); Goodyear GA-400R (serial 2M, cancelled May 18, 1965). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N53A. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"20-926","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1906 MILLER FARMS RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00177028","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N53A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1953,"zip":"381382743"}