{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2000-12-05","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-12-09","city":"SAN ANTONIO","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":341,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52026","engine_horsepower":2000,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"R-2800 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-12-09","maker":"Grumman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3950801","mode_s_code":"51677713","mode_s_hex":"A77FCB","model":"F8F-1","n_number":"N58204","name":"SPITFIRE VENTURES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ENCINAL","damage":"SUBS","date":"1990-02-10","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW90LA065","probable_cause":"THE LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DUE TO THE FAILURE OF THE TAIL ROTOR CABLE.","registration":"N58204","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on February 10, 1990 at Encinal, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N58204 is a Grumman F8F-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Spitfire Ventures LLC, an LLC in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 5, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Spitfire Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 5, 2000, 54 years after the 1946 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 95255 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N58204 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes 269C (serial 1280743, cancelled May 21, 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 N58204: Accident on February 10, 1990 at Encinal, 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"95255","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"10101 REUNION PL STE 1000","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00815102","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N58204","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1946,"zip":"782164157"}