{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1975-07-09","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-12-20","city":"DAYTONA BEACH","country_code":"US","county_code":"127","cruise_speed_mph":150,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41533","engine_horsepower":310,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TI0-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102308","mode_s_code":"51574313","mode_s_hex":"A6F8CB","model":"PA-23-250","n_number":"N54857","name":"MACH TUCK LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Elko","damage":"DEST","date":"2018-01-12","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR18FA073","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadequate preflight weather planning, which resulted in the flight over mountainous terrain into forecast instrument meteorological conditions, icing, and mountain wave, and resulted in an uncontrolled descent and collision with terrain.","registration":"N54857","state":"NV","summary":"Accident on January 12, 2018 at Elko, NV: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N54857 is a Piper PA-23-250, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Mach Tuck LLC, an LLC in Daytona Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2010 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 9, 1975.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mach Tuck LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 20, 2010, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated July 9, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27-7554157 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N54857 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: North American AT-6A (serial 78-6456, cancelled January 12, 1954). 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 N54857: Accident on January 12, 2018 at Elko, NV: fatal, destroyed (1 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"27-7554157","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1585 AVIATION CENTER PKWY STE 602","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00493575","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N54857","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1975,"zip":"321143807"}