{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1996-12-23","airworthiness_ops":"Commuter","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-05-13","city":"VAN NUYS","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52032","engine_horsepower":750,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"PT6A SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-13","maker":"Raytheon Aircraft Company","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT COMPANY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7150007","mode_s_code":"51646754","mode_s_hex":"A74DEC","model":"B300","n_number":"N57VA","name":"BIGUPS AVIATION 012 LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N57VA is a Raytheon Aircraft Company B300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1996. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Bigups Aviation 012 LLC, an LLC in Van Nuys, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated December 23, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bigups Aviation 012 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 13, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for commuter, dated December 23, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial FL-154 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N57VA 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 N57VA. 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":19,"serial_number":"FL-154","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7900 BALBOA BLVD STE 108","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00406371","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N57VA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1996,"zip":"914061646"}