{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-01-30","city":"HENDERSONVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"089","cruise_speed_mph":169,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"64502","engine_horsepower":125,"engine_maker":"WARNER","engine_model":"SCARAB SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-02-04","maker":"Fleet","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FLEET","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1461102","mode_s_code":"52056207","mode_s_hex":"A85C87","model":"1","n_number":"N638M","name":"WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AIR MUSEUM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HOLLY SPRINGS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1995-11-19","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ATL96LA013","probable_cause":"a loss of engine power due to a cracked crankshaft. A factor was the rough/uneven terrain encountered during the forced landing.","registration":"N638M","state":"NC","summary":"Accident on November 19, 1995 at Holly Springs, NC: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N638M is a Fleet 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1930. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Western North Carolina Air Museum, a corporation in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Western North Carolina Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 30, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 213 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N638M 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":"1 NTSB record under N638M: Accident on November 19, 1995 at Holly Springs, NC: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"213","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 2343","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00173981","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N638M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1930,"zip":"287932343"}