{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2019-07-18","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-08-02","city":"STATELINE","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"63605","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"VEDENEYEV","engine_model":"M14-PF","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-02","maker":"Yakovlev","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"YAKOVLEV","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9830110","mode_s_code":"51577616","mode_s_hex":"A6FF8E","model":"YAK-50","n_number":"N550BK","name":"FERGUSON ROSS L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"SMITH PAUL","plain_english":"N550BK is a Yakovlev YAK-50, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Stateline, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 2, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 18, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ferguson Ross L, a co-owned, certificate issued August 2, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 18, 2019, 34 years after the 1985 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 822303 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N550BK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Roberds Kenneth A RANS S-12 (serial 0295559, cancelled April 3, 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N550BK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"822303","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NV","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 5991","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01264608","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N550BK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1985,"zip":"894495991"}