{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1982-08-26","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"AUBURN","country_code":"US","county_code":"015","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-30","maker":"Poplawski","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"POPLAWSKI","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05609B3","mode_s_code":"52201203","mode_s_hex":"A90283","model":"VARIEZE","n_number":"N68SW","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"LUBBOCK","damage":"","date":"1983-01-20","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW83IA094","probable_cause":"","registration":"N68SW","state":"TX","summary":"Incident on January 20, 1983 at Lubbock, TX: no injuries.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N68SW is a Poplawski VARIEZE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Auburn, New Hampshire. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending, canceled\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 1982.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending, canceled\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; 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 409 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N68SW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 737-2H4 (serial 22357, cancelled March 3, 2006). 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 N68SW: Incident on January 20, 1983 at Lubbock, TX: no injuries. 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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"409","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NH","status":"Registration pending, canceled","status_code":"20","status_short":"Canceled","street":"135 WINDSOR DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00670816","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N68SW","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"030323843"}