{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1971-05-18","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-01-24","city":"ST THOMAS","country_code":"VI","county_code":"000","cruise_speed_mph":165,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17032","engine_horsepower":285,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO 520 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-24","maker":"Beech","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BEECH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1152740","mode_s_code":"51741307","mode_s_hex":"A7C2C7","model":"58","n_number":"N6CH","name":"HODGE CLEOPHAS U","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ST CROIX","damage":"SUBS","date":"1999-03-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA99LA106","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear.","registration":"N6CH","state":"","summary":"Accident on March 16, 1999 at St Croix: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"SPOKANE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1990-11-22","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA91LA022","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S MISJUDGEMENT OF HIS TOUCHDOWN DUE TO DISORIENTATION CAUSED BY HIS LACK OF FORWARD VISIBILITY CREATED BY AN ACCUMULATION OF ICE ON THE WINDSHIELD.","registration":"N6CH","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on November 22, 1990 at Spokane, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6CH is a Beech 58, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 18, 1971.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hodge Cleophas U, an individual, certificate issued January 24, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated May 18, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TH-131 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6CH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 65-88 (serial LP43, cancelled May 5, 1993). 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":"2 NTSB records under N6CH: Accident on March 16, 1999 at St Croix: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 22, 1990 at Spokane, WA: 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":6,"serial_number":"TH-131","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 306962","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00220931","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6CH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1971,"zip":"008036962"}