{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2020-07-29","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-06-29","city":"MORGAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41819","engine_horsepower":200,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-360-A1B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-8","last_action_date":"2024-03-14","maker":"Joe Dory Jr","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JOE DORY JR","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05609NI","mode_s_code":"52072145","mode_s_hex":"A87465","model":"VANS RV-8","n_number":"N644DC","name":"COMPTON JOHN DOUGLAS","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Stevensville","damage":"SUBS","date":"2008-09-11","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC08CA313","probable_cause":"The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during takeoff.","registration":"N644DC","state":"MD","summary":"Accident on September 11, 2008 at Stevensville, MD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N644DC is a Joe Dory Jr VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morgan, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 29, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Compton John Douglas, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 29, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80790 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N644DC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0144, cancelled September 10, 2014). 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":"1 NTSB record under N644DC: Accident on September 11, 2008 at Stevensville, MD: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"80790","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"UT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4217 IRIS AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00545640","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N644DC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2020,"zip":"840509738"}