{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1993-01-07","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-06-01","city":"OCEANSIDE","country_code":"US","county_code":"073","cruise_speed_mph":183,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41505","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-235 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-01","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103812","mode_s_code":"52002361","mode_s_hex":"A804F1","model":"PA-38-112","n_number":"N6159N","name":"CROTHALL GEORGE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"BARBA WEST J","plain_english":"N6159N is a Piper PA-38-112, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Oceanside, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 7, 1993.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Crothall George, a co-owned, certificate issued June 1, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 7, 1993, 15 years after the 1978 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 38-78A0069 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6159N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 210M (serial 21062930, cancelled December 15, 1978). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N6159N. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"38-78A0069","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1930 S NEVADA ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"00215958","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6159N","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"920546418"}