{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2007-10-16","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-08-08","city":"JUNCTION","country_code":"US","county_code":"267","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":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-12-09","maker":"Hughes William J","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES WILLIAM J","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05902QS","mode_s_code":"51673647","mode_s_hex":"A777A7","model":"AVENTURA UL","n_number":"N580TX","name":"RIECK BRIAN M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Garden Ridge","damage":"SUBS","date":"2017-04-04","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CEN17LA149","probable_cause":"The total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined based on the available evidence.","registration":"N580TX","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on April 4, 2017 at Garden Ridge, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N580TX is a Hughes William J AVENTURA UL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Junction, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 16, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rieck Brian M, an individual, certificate issued August 8, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 16, 2007, 10 years after the 1997 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial UL0016 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N580TX 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":"1 NTSB record under N580TX: Accident on April 4, 2017 at Garden Ridge, TX: serious 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"UL0016","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 472","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00359929","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N580TX","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"768490472"}