{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-12-29","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-04-15","city":"CROWLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"439","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"01517","engine_horsepower":600,"engine_maker":"AIRESEARCH","engine_model":"TPE331 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-04-15","maker":"Short Brothers Plc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SHORT BROTHERS PLC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8100527","mode_s_code":"52621541","mode_s_hex":"AB2361","model":"S312 TUCANO T MK1","n_number":"N817AD","name":"TUCANO AIR FORCE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N817AD is a Short Brothers Plc S312 TUCANO T MK1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1991. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tucano Air Force LLC, an LLC in Crowley, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 29, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Tucano Air Force LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 15, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 29, 2025, 34 years after the 1991 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 S117/T88 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N817AD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B16 (serial 5931, cancelled October 2, 2017). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N817AD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"S117/T88","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"601 HANDLE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01509076","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N817AD","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1991,"zip":"760364687"}