{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2008-06-03","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-02-06","city":"FLORENCE","country_code":"US","county_code":"041","cruise_speed_mph":107,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42270","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-360-A4A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-07","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102808","mode_s_code":"52104627","mode_s_hex":"A88997","model":"PA-28-180","n_number":"N6494J","name":"KENNEDY QUINCY A IV","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Millville","damage":"SUBS","date":"2005-09-20","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"NYC05LA144","probable_cause":"The flight instructor's improper in-flight decision to perform a emergency landing to a runway, with a tailwind, and his failure to maintain airspeed after aborting that landing, which resulted in an inadvertent stall and subsequent impact with terrain.  Factors in the accident were the partial loss of engine power due to a cracked cylinder, and tailwind condition.","registration":"N6494J","state":"NJ","summary":"Accident on September 20, 2005 at Millville, NJ: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6494J is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Florence, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 3, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kennedy Quincy A IV, an individual, certificate issued February 6, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 3, 2008, 40 years after the 1968 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 28-4925 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N6494J 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 N6494J: Accident on September 20, 2005 at Millville, NJ: serious 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"28-4925","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"610 CHEROKEE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00822466","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6494J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1968,"zip":"295015233"}