{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1996-03-26","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-01-06","city":"BLOOMSDALE","country_code":"US","county_code":"186","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59050","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"SUBARU","engine_model":"ALL MDLS A/B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Painton Albert M","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PAINTON ALBERT M","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056201X","mode_s_code":"52005536","mode_s_hex":"A80B5E","model":"RANS S-7","n_number":"N6172A","name":"PAINTON ALBERT JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6172A is a Painton Albert M RANS S-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bloomsdale, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Painton Albert JR, an individual, certificate issued January 6, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 26, 1996, 3 years after the 1993 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 0992097 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6172A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-36-375 (serial 36-8102014, cancelled March 8, 1983). 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 N6172A. 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"0992097","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7116 CEDAR RIDGE LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00884152","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6172A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1993,"zip":"636279147"}