{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1982-01-21","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1999-10-20","city":"CUMMING","country_code":"US","county_code":"117","cruise_speed_mph":97,"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":"2028-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-07-09","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7101820","mode_s_code":"51553233","mode_s_hex":"A6D69B","model":"PA-18-135","n_number":"N54LP","name":"PERRY JEFFREY KEVIN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Venice, LA","damage":"SUBS","date":"2013-10-09","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN14FA004","probable_cause":"A total loss of engine power due to the liberation of a second stage turbine blade near the blade root due to a high-cycle fatigue\u00a0crack and subsequent overload.\u00a0Although extensive testing and materials analysis was performed, the reason for crack initiation could not be determined.","registration":"N54LP","state":"","summary":"Accident on October 9, 2013 at Venice, La: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N54LP is a Piper PA-18-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cumming, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 1999 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 21, 1982.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Perry Jeffrey Kevin, an individual, certificate issued October 20, 1999, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 21, 1982, 28 years after the 1954 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 18-3928 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N54LP was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206L-3 (serial 51466, cancelled June 30, 2014); Cessna 421C (serial 421C0085, cancelled December 7, 1989). 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 N54LP: Accident on October 9, 2013 at Venice, La: fatal, substantial damage (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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"18-3928","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2235 KITFOX CIR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00313572","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N54LP","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1954,"zip":"300417842"}