{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1992-08-21","city":"KETCHIKAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"130","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2028-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-21","maker":"Hassell Dan J","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HASSELL DAN J","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"95708EN","mode_s_code":"51553246","mode_s_hex":"A6D6A6","model":"AVID FLYER HVY HLR","n_number":"N54M","name":"HASSELL DAN J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DIXIE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1983-04-11","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA83LA080","probable_cause":"","registration":"N54M","state":"ID","summary":"Accident on April 11, 1983 at Dixie, ID: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N54M is a Hassell Dan J AVID FLYER HVY HLR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ketchikan, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 1992 and expires on February 29, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hassell Dan J, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 1992, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 934 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N54M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hawker MK 11 SEA FURY (serial 41H606878, cancelled September 17, 1970); Bach Aircraft Co Inc 3-CT-8 (serial 17, cancelled December 9, 1932). 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 N54M: Accident on April 11, 1983 at Dixie, ID: 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"934","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2949 S TONGASS HWY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00103962","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N54M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"99901"}