{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1999-11-18","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-12-19","city":"EAST HARTFORD","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52295","engine_horsepower":550,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"T74-CP-700","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"LANCAIR INTL INC","kit_model":"LANCAIR IV P","last_action_date":"2023-07-01","maker":"Richard Brinkman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RICHARD BRINKMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05602C0","mode_s_code":"51600173","mode_s_hex":"A7007B","model":"LANCAIR 4P","n_number":"N550LX","name":"LING SCOTT","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hartford","damage":"SUBS","date":"2023-01-28","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ERA23LA121","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s takeoff with a significant fuel imbalance, which resulted in the airplane lacking the roll authority to overcome the left rolling tendency and subsequently impacting terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot\u2019s inadequate preflight inspection and the gusting crosswind.","registration":"N550LX","state":"CT","summary":"Accident on January 28, 2023 at Hartford, CT: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N550LX is a Richard Brinkman LANCAIR 4P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in East Hartford, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 18, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ling Scott, an individual, certificate issued December 19, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 18, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 006 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N550LX according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N550LX: Accident on January 28, 2023 at Hartford, CT: serious 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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"006","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"151A PARK AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00455691","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N550LX","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"061084012"}