{"airworthiness_class":"Multiple","airworthiness_date":"1965-03-09","airworthiness_ops":"Standard; Restricted; Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1995-11-21","city":"PLATTSMOUTH","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41517","engine_horsepower":190,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-435A/0-435C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-07","maker":"Stinson","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"STINSON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8630202","mode_s_code":"52002277","mode_s_hex":"A804BF","model":"L-5","n_number":"N61578","name":"HEFNER RONALD J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"HEFNER BROOKE W","plain_english":"N61578 is a Stinson L-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 1995 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated March 9, 1965.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hefner Ronald J, a co-owned, certificate issued November 21, 1995, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 9, 1965, 23 years after the 1942 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 1003 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N61578 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N61578. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"1003","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"18213 PETERSON RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00951356","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N61578","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1942,"zip":"680487325"}