{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2024-09-13","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-08-20","city":"TUCSON","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55620","engine_horsepower":135,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"915 IS","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-08-20","maker":"Jmb Aircraft S R O","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JMB AIRCRAFT S R O","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4370106","mode_s_code":"52440034","mode_s_hex":"AA401C","model":"VL-3EH-915","n_number":"N76KM","name":"HODES MICHAEL","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BIG TIMBER","damage":"DEST","date":"1989-06-02","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DEN89MA130","probable_cause":"FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT DURING TAKEOFF, DUE TO SPATIAL DISORIENTATION, WHICH RESULTED IN A COLLISION WITH THE TERRAIN. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE:  DARK NIGHT, PILOT'S VISUAL PERCEPTION, INADEQUATE INITIAL TRAINING OF THE PILOT BY THE OPERATOR, THE PILOT'S LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA, AND THE COMPANY'S INSUFFICIENT STANDARDS/REQUIREMENTS.","registration":"N76KM","state":"MT","summary":"Accident on June 2, 1989 at Big Timber, MT: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N76KM is a Jmb Aircraft S R O VL-3EH-915, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 13, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hodes Michael, an individual, certificate issued August 20, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated September 13, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VL-3-575 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N76KM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206L-3 (serial 51103, cancelled December 18, 2014). 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 N76KM: Accident on June 2, 1989 at Big Timber, MT: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"VL-3-575","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6701 MONTEZUMA DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01466391","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N76KM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2024,"zip":"85718"}