{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1975-12-11","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-08-24","city":"BEALETON","country_code":"US","county_code":"061","cruise_speed_mph":116,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Beech","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BEECH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1151242","mode_s_code":"52440301","mode_s_hex":"AA40C1","model":"C23","n_number":"N76SB","name":"ADAMS SIMMIE A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Midland","damage":"DEST","date":"2023-12-03","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA24FA053","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s decision to descend below the minimum decision altitude of the instrument approach without having the appropriate runway visual references distinctively identified and with the visibility and ceiling below the minimum that was prescribed for the approach, which resulted in controlled flight into terrain.","registration":"N76SB","state":"VA","summary":"Accident on December 3, 2023 at Midland, VA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N76SB is a Beech C23, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bealeton, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 11, 1975.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Adams Simmie A, an individual, certificate issued August 24, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 11, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M-1776 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N76SB according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N76SB: Accident on December 3, 2023 at Midland, VA: fatal, destroyed (1 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"M-1776","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"11656 SOLDIERS TRL","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00403087","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N76SB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1975,"zip":"227127746"}