{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1997-10-10","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-09-07","city":"WANAQUE","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41530","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072701","mode_s_code":"52200472","mode_s_hex":"A9013A","model":"182S","n_number":"N68DS","name":"SICHAK STEPHEN JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CASTROVILLE","damage":"DEST","date":"1992-05-03","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"FTW92LA125","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRCRAFT CONTROL DURING THE FLARE. FACTORS WERE THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE PROPELLER FEATHERING SYSTEM AND THE PILOT'S TOTAL LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN TYPE AIRCRAFT AND THE SLIPPED PROPELLER PITCH CHANGE SYSTEM.","registration":"N68DS","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on May 3, 1992 at Castroville, TX: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"SICHAK MARY JO","plain_english":"N68DS is a Cessna 182S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wanaque, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 10, 1997.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sichak Stephen JR, a co-owned, certificate issued September 7, 2005, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated October 10, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18280033 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N68DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Shewmaker Darryl D BD 5 (serial 0014, cancelled July 19, 1994). 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 N68DS: Accident on May 3, 1992 at Castroville, TX: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":4,"serial_number":"18280033","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NJ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"15 RESERVOIR DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00856441","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N68DS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"074652415"}