{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1999-03-02","airworthiness_ops":"Aerial advertising","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-07-22","city":"HENDERSON","country_code":"US","county_code":"181","cruise_speed_mph":93,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52008","engine_horsepower":450,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R-985 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-30","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1380134","mode_s_code":"52154245","mode_s_hex":"A8D8A5","model":"A75N1(PT17)","n_number":"N66940","name":"DESERT FLIGHT ACADEMY INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Palm Springs","damage":"SUBS","date":"2010-10-12","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR11CA014","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing, resulting in a ground loop.","registration":"N66940","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on October 12, 2010 at Palm Springs, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N66940 is a Boeing A75N1(PT17), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Desert Flight Academy INC, a corporation in Henderson, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated March 2, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Desert Flight Academy INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 22, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 2, 1999, 56 years after the 1943 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 75-4716 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N66940 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 N66940: Accident on October 12, 2010 at Palm Springs, CA: 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":"75-4716","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"358 POOL ROCK SHORES LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00483146","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N66940","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1943,"zip":"275376427"}