{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2007-09-21","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-07-31","city":"CRESTONE","country_code":"US","county_code":"109","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55563","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"582UL DCDI","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"light-sport","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-12-05","maker":"Aerotrike","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROTRIKE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0590259","mode_s_code":"52577542","mode_s_hex":"AAFF62","model":"COBRA","n_number":"N8078V","name":"BELL CORWIN E","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DUBLIN","damage":"DEST","date":"1989-05-09","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX89FA189","probable_cause":"THE PILOT DECIDED TO CONTINUE VFR FLIGHT AFTER ENCOUNTERING INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN AN AREA OF RISING MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. FACTORS IN THIS ACCIDENT WERE THE PILOTS LACK OF EXPERIENCE AND HIS FAILURE TO OBTAIN A PREFLIGHT WEATHER BRIEFING.","registration":"N8078V","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on May 9, 1989 at Dublin, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8078V is an Aerotrike COBRA, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Crestone, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 21, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bell Corwin E, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 21, 2007, 5 years after the 2002 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 048 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8078V was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120 (serial 120242, cancelled July 22, 2004); Bell 206B (serial 4332, cancelled May 4, 1995); Piper PA-28-181 (serial 288090074, cancelled February 12, 1991). 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 N8078V: Accident on May 9, 1989 at Dublin, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"048","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1202 HILLTOP WAY UNIT 531","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Weight-shift control","type_aircraft_code":"7","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00382039","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8078V","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"81131"}