{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1991-08-08","airworthiness_ops":"To show compliance with regulations","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-11-28","city":"HUNTSVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"089","cruise_speed_mph":141,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52016","engine_horsepower":600,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R1340 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-29","maker":"North American","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NORTH AMERICAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"6400402","mode_s_code":"52135523","mode_s_hex":"A8BB53","model":"AT-6","n_number":"N6617X","name":"BURNS CHARLES R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MATAWAN","damage":"SUBS","date":"1993-07-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"BFO93LA142","probable_cause":"THE WATER COLLECTION IN THE IGNITION HARNESS WHICH RENDERED THE LOWER CYLINDER SPARK PLUGS INOPERATIVE RESULTING IN PARTIAL POWER LOSS.","registration":"N6617X","state":"NJ","summary":"Accident on July 30, 1993 at Matawan, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6617X is a North American AT-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Huntsville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated August 8, 1991.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Burns Charles R, an individual, certificate issued November 28, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 8, 1991, 47 years after the 1944 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 7718-59 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6617X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 210A (serial 21057617, cancelled April 18, 1961). 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 N6617X: Accident on July 30, 1993 at Matawan, NJ: 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"7718-59","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4624 PANORAMA DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00239518","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6617X","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1944,"zip":"358011213"}