{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1968-12-27","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2004-07-27","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":135,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41533","engine_horsepower":310,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TI0-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-11-14","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102406","mode_s_code":"51667621","mode_s_hex":"A76F91","model":"PA-24-260","n_number":"N5788","name":"KNOT SPEED LTD","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HOUSTON","damage":"SUBS","date":"1999-07-02","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW99LA178","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain the proper descent rate during a forced landing, which resulted in a runway undershoot.  Factors were the total loss of engine power for an undetermined reason and the dusk light conditions.","registration":"N5788","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on July 2, 1999 at Houston, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5788 is a Piper PA-24-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Knot Speed LTD, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 27, 1968.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Knot Speed LTD, a corporation, certificate issued July 27, 2004, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 27, 1968, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-4580 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5788 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco GXE (serial 1566, cancelled August 27, 1938). 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 N5788: Accident on July 2, 1999 at Houston, TX: no 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"24-4580","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"108 W 13TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00911545","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5788","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1966,"zip":"198011145"}