{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2008-01-15","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-06-03","city":"DENVER","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55556","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"582SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"light-sport","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Antares Aircraft Inc Us","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ANTARES AIRCRAFT INC US","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05901DC","mode_s_code":"51552676","mode_s_hex":"A6D5BE","model":"MA-33 R-582","n_number":"N54BT","name":"HERON JOHN S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MABIE","damage":"DEST","date":"1997-03-06","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"NYC97FA057","probable_cause":"The pilot's disregard of the preflight weather briefing for severe weather along his route of flight, and his departure into the known and forecasted severe weather.  A factor in the accident was the inadequate FAA oversight of the operator, which fostered an attitude of rule bending.","registration":"N54BT","state":"WV","summary":"Accident on March 6, 1997 at Mabie, WV: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N54BT is an Antares Aircraft Inc Us MA-33 R-582, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Denver, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2013 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 15, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Heron John S, an individual, certificate issued June 3, 2013, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 15, 2008, 5 years after the 2003 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 15GST for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N54BT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E18S (serial BA56, cancelled May 19, 1998). 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 N54BT: Accident on March 6, 1997 at Mabie, WV: fatal, destroyed (2 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"15GST","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2463 S MARION ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Weight-shift control","type_aircraft_code":"7","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00373519","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N54BT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"802105122"}