{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1989-08-29","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-05-17","city":"DELAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"069","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-09"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102803","mode_s_code":"51745605","mode_s_hex":"A7CB85","model":"PA-28-161","n_number":"N601FT","name":"SANSON PAUL H","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Merritt Island","damage":"SUBS","date":"2016-06-29","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"GAA16LA352","probable_cause":"A total loss of engine power during the landing roll, and an engine fire during a subsequent engine restart attempt. Neither the cause for the loss of engine power nor the source of the fire could be determined because the airplane was not made available for examination.","registration":"N601FT","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on June 29, 2016 at Merritt Island, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N601FT is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Deland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 29, 1989. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sanson Paul H, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 29, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2841195 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N601FT according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 9, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N601FT: Accident on June 29, 2016 at Merritt Island, FL: 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"2841195","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"40 MELODIE LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00534611","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N601FT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1989,"zip":"327241306"}