{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2008-06-26","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-12-09","city":"MARINA DEL REY","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41818","engine_horsepower":200,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-360-A1A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"GLASAIR AVIATION LLC","kit_model":"GS-2 SPORTSMAN","last_action_date":"2026-07-25","maker":"Renquist George","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RENQUIST GEORGE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056261L","mode_s_code":"51603562","mode_s_hex":"A70772","model":"GS-2 SPORTSMAN","n_number":"N552GC","name":"ARNOLD LOREN WESLEY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hawthorne","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-08-08","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR24LA272","probable_cause":"The flight crew\u2019s failure to maintain airspeed during a short field landing and the instructor\u2019s delayed remediation, which resulted in a hard landing.","registration":"N552GC","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on August 8, 2024 at Hawthorne, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N552GC is a Renquist George GS-2 SPORTSMAN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Marina Del Rey, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 26, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Arnold Loren Wesley, an individual, certificate issued December 9, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 26, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7266 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N552GC 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 N552GC: Accident on August 8, 2024 at Hawthorne, CA: minor 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"7266","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"13157 MINDANAO WAY # 72","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01007131","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N552GC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2008,"zip":"902926307"}