{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1977-04-15","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1996-08-30","city":"BOONE","country_code":"US","county_code":"189","cruise_speed_mph":127,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072821","mode_s_code":"52152551","mode_s_hex":"A8D569","model":"A185F","n_number":"N6688H","name":"SAMARITANS PURSE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ELIZABETHTON","damage":"SUBS","date":"1994-11-03","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ATL95LA011","probable_cause":"THE FLEXING OF THE RUDDER PEDAL CONTROL LOCKING ASSEMBLY WHICH RESULTED IN THE COLLAPSE OF THE CO-PILOT'S LEFT PEDAL DURING HEAVY BRAKING.","registration":"N6688H","state":"TN","summary":"Accident on November 3, 1994 at Elizabethton, TN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6688H is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Samaritans Purse, a corporation in Boone, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 1996 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 15, 1977.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Samaritans Purse, a corporation, certificate issued August 30, 1996, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503335 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6688H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 19898, cancelled April 25, 1957). 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 N6688H: Accident on November 3, 1994 at Elizabethton, TN: 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":6,"serial_number":"18503335","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 3000","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00423106","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6688H","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"286073000"}