{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2004-01-23","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-07-22","city":"HOUSTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"201","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"02505","engine_horsepower":1100,"engine_maker":"ALLIEDSIGN","engine_model":"TPE331-12UHR","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Fairchild","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FAIRCHILD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3377521","mode_s_code":"51433105","mode_s_hex":"A63645","model":"SA227-DC","n_number":"N5LN","name":"M7 AVIATION SERVICES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ROCK","damage":"DEST","date":"1998-11-05","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI99FA023","probable_cause":"the pilot failed to maintain control of the aircraft and made an improper evaluation of the weather.  Additional factors were flying a test flight at night with the icing conditions in the clouds.","registration":"N5LN","state":"KS","summary":"Accident on November 5, 1998 at Rock, KS: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5LN is a Fairchild SA227-DC, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1995. It has 25 seats. It is registered to M7 Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 23, 2004.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to M7 Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 22, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 23, 2004, 9 years after the 1995 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 DC878B for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5LN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 (serial 799 S.A., cancelled May 1, 2000). 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 N5LN: Accident on November 5, 1998 at Rock, KS: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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":25,"serial_number":"DC878B","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7800 WASHINGTON AVE STE 700","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00185222","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5LN","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1995,"zip":"770074625"}