{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2019-07-05","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-05-03","city":"DALLAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","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":"2029-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-04","maker":"Lankenau Kip F","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LANKENAU KIP F","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05638LQ","mode_s_code":"51607043","mode_s_hex":"A70E23","model":"SOPWITH TYPE 9400","n_number":"N5539","name":"LANKENAU KIP F","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Van Alstyne","damage":"SUBS","date":"2020-07-03","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CEN20LA259","probable_cause":"An inflight loss of aileron control due to movement of a control connector.","registration":"N5539","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on July 3, 2020 at Van Alstyne, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5539 is a Lankenau Kip F SOPWITH TYPE 9400, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 5, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lankenau Kip F, an individual, certificate issued May 3, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 5, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial N5539 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5539 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Lockheed 188C (serial 1091, cancelled April 13, 1992); Lockheed 188C (serial 188C1080, cancelled July 13, 1970); Swallow SWALLOW (serial 942, cancelled March 2, 1929). 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 N5539: Accident on July 3, 2020 at Van Alstyne, TX: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"N5539","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2127 CROWN RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01296465","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5539","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2019,"zip":"752292005"}