{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2014-09-24","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-10-22","city":"UNION BEACH","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17247","engine_horsepower":350,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"TSIO-550-E","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"LANCAIR INTL INC","kit_model":"LANCAIR IV P","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Carl Franklin Lipe","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CARL FRANKLIN LIPE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05633FK","mode_s_code":"51574626","mode_s_hex":"A6F996","model":"LANCAIR 4-P","n_number":"N549CJ","name":"GENERAL AERO LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Laramie","damage":"SUBS","date":"2019-02-10","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR19LA088","probable_cause":"An environmental stress cracking failure of the acrylic windshield, which resulted in a rapid decompression during cruise flight.","registration":"N549CJ","state":"WY","summary":"Accident on February 10, 2019 at Laramie, WY: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N549CJ is a Carl Franklin Lipe LANCAIR 4-P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 4 seats. It is registered to General Aero LLC, an LLC in Union Beach, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 24, 2014.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to General Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 22, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 24, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 218 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N549CJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 525 (serial 525-0549, cancelled January 11, 2006). 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 N549CJ: Accident on February 10, 2019 at Laramie, WY: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"218","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NJ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"718 BROOK AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01122800","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N549CJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2014,"zip":"077353143"}