{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2006-07-22","airworthiness_ops":"Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-01-28","city":"HEREFORD","country_code":"US","county_code":"117","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-24"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17246","engine_horsepower":310,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"TSIO-550-C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-01-28","maker":"Columbia Aircraft Mfg","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"COLUMBIA AIRCRAFT MFG","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5150011","mode_s_code":"51644030","mode_s_hex":"A74818","model":"LC41-550FG","n_number":"N5688F","name":"LINK JOHN ERNEST","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5688F is a Columbia Aircraft Mfg LC41-550FG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hereford, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 22, 2006. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Link John Ernest, an individual, certificate issued January 28, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41566 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5688F was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech B200 (serial BB1375, cancelled September 6, 1990); Southern Air-Time Inc BUCCANEER (serial 002, cancelled April 22, 1988). 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":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 24, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N5688F. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"41566","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1712 PLAINS AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00218539","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5688F","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"790453712"}