{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1993-08-13","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-04-17","city":"BOZEMAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","cruise_speed_mph":45,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-28","maker":"Let","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LET","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1360306","mode_s_code":"52270615","mode_s_hex":"A9718D","model":"BLANIK L-13","n_number":"N70741","name":"BIG SKY JET INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Belgrade","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-07-31","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"SEA02LA140","probable_cause":"The glider pilot's improper in-flight planning decision and his failure to attain the proper touchdown point.  Contributing to the accident were the inadvertent activation of the speed brakes, the pilot's failure to maintain altitude, the high vegetation and the ditch.","registration":"N70741","state":"MT","summary":"Accident on July 31, 2002 at Belgrade, MT: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"BELGRADE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1999-06-17","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA99LA087","probable_cause":"The pilot in command's failure to maintain clearance from a parked airplane during his attempt to avoid a person on the runway.","registration":"N70741","state":"MT","summary":"Accident on June 17, 1999 at Belgrade, MT: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N70741 is a Let BLANIK L-13, a glider with no engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Big Sky Jet INC, a corporation in Bozeman, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated August 13, 1993.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Big Sky Jet INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 17, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider; 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 027341 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N70741 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15282596, cancelled July 29, 1988). 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 N70741: Accident on July 31, 2002 at Belgrade, MT: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 17, 1999 at Belgrade, MT: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"027341","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3101 COTTONTAIL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00804382","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N70741","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"597189109"}