{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-04-08","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-05-15","city":"HOOD RIVER","country_code":"US","county_code":"027","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-8A","last_action_date":"2026-03-25","maker":"Johnson Lance J","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JOHNSON LANCE J","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05618O0","mode_s_code":"51605217","mode_s_hex":"A70A8F","model":"RV-8A","n_number":"N553","name":"JOHNSON SETH ERIC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N553 is a Johnson Lance J RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 8, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Johnson Seth Eric, an individual, certificate issued May 15, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 2026, 21 years after the 2005 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 80693 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N553 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Arrow Aircraft & Motors ARROW SPORT (serial 307, cancelled December 18, 1940). 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 N553. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"80693","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"709 HEIGHTS AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00142069","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N553","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2005,"zip":"970316715"}