{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2006-12-30","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2006-11-20","city":"RAMONA","country_code":"US","county_code":"073","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":"2029-03-31","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":"2023-07-22","maker":"Mclane Michael J","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MCLANE MICHAEL J","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05622IV","mode_s_code":"51665703","mode_s_hex":"A76BC3","model":"RV-8A","n_number":"N5777M","name":"MCLANE MICHAEL J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"EL PASO","damage":"DEST","date":"1987-07-04","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"FTW87FA161","probable_cause":"","registration":"N5777M","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on July 4, 1987 at El Paso, TX: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5777M is a Mclane Michael J RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ramona, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2006 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 30, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mclane Michael J, an individual, certificate issued November 20, 2006, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 30, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80950 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5777M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-24-250 (serial 241253, cancelled April 11, 1991). 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 N5777M: Accident on July 4, 1987 at El Paso, TX: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"80950","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"17434 RANCHO DE LA ANGEL","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00302149","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5777M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2006,"zip":"92065"}