{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2019-04-24","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-05-29","city":"WHITEHALL","country_code":"US","county_code":"043","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"62000","engine_horsepower":130,"engine_maker":"ULPOWER","engine_model":"UL350IS","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"RANS DESIGNS INC","kit_model":"S-7S","last_action_date":"2023-05-12","maker":"James E Davidson Jr","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JAMES E DAVIDSON JR","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05637M0","mode_s_code":"51740423","mode_s_hex":"A7C113","model":"RANS S-7S COURIER","n_number":"N599YY","name":"DAVIDSON JAMES E JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Benson","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-04-22","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR24LA130","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s unintentional use of a winter-blend fuel that was susceptible to vaporization, which resulted in fuel starvation and a loss of engine power due to vapor lock. Contributing to the accident was the airplane\u2019s undersized fuel lines, which limited the available fuel flow and volume.","registration":"N599YY","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on April 22, 2024 at Benson, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N599YY is a James E Davidson Jr RANS S-7S COURIER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Whitehall, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 29, 2018 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 24, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Davidson James E JR, an individual, certificate issued May 29, 2018, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 24, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0510343 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N599YY 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 N599YY: Accident on April 22, 2024 at Benson, AZ: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"0510343","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 691","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01275374","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N599YY","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2019,"zip":"597590691"}