{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2017-12-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-01-11","city":"BAD AXE","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51499","engine_horsepower":867,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6A-140","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Textron Aviation Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TEXTRON AVIATION INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2073712","mode_s_code":"51527702","mode_s_hex":"A6AFC2","model":"208B","n_number":"N53TE","name":"THUMB AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N53TE is a Textron Aviation Inc 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2017. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Thumb Aviation LLC, an LLC in Bad Axe, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 2017.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Thumb Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 11, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 20, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5351 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N53TE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N (serial LN038, cancelled October 22, 2003). 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 N53TE. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":12,"serial_number":"208B5351","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"175 THOMPSON RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01269143","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N53TE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2017,"zip":"484138274"}