{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1991-02-21","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-06-06","city":"JOHNSON","country_code":"US","county_code":"187","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17042","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO-550 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-02-17","maker":"Airnew Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIRNEW INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056181R","mode_s_code":"51433241","mode_s_hex":"A636A1","model":"QUESTAIR VENTURE","n_number":"N5QE","name":"TROUTMAN SHAWN L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"El Paso","damage":"SUBS","date":"2006-09-28","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DFW06LA216","probable_cause":"The aircraft's inadequate landing gear design, which resulted in a loss of directional control and subsequent nose-over. A factor was the owner/builder's failure to incorporate modifications to the landing gear.","registration":"N5QE","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on September 28, 2006 at El Paso, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5QE is an Airnew Inc QUESTAIR VENTURE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Johnson, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 21, 1991.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Troutman Shawn L, an individual, certificate issued June 6, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5QE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Weber Alan D WEBER VENTURE (serial 54, cancelled January 30, 2007). 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 N5QE: Accident on September 28, 2006 at El Paso, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"15","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 238","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00305291","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5QE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"678550238"}