{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2003-10-15","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-07-09","city":"PETALUMA","country_code":"US","county_code":"097","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-6A","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Ballard James R","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BALLARD JAMES R","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05615MX","mode_s_code":"51576445","mode_s_hex":"A6FD25","model":"VANS RV-6A","n_number":"N55AU","name":"WALLNER CHRIS R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"GREER TIMOTHY E","plain_english":"N55AU is a Ballard James R VANS RV-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Petaluma, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 15, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wallner Chris R, a co-owned, certificate issued July 9, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 15, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60537 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N55AU 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N55AU. 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":2,"serial_number":"60537","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"420 FAIRVIEW CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00049209","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N55AU","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"949523615"}