{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2000-03-07","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Aerial advertising","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-03-11","city":"RAPID CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"103","cruise_speed_mph":81,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41504","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-360-A1D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102502","mode_s_code":"52625110","mode_s_hex":"AB2A48","model":"PA-25","n_number":"N8186K","name":"BLACK HILLS SOARING CLUB INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hot Springs","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-07-12","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN25FA248","probable_cause":"","registration":"N8186K","state":"SD","summary":"Accident on July 12, 2025 at Hot Springs, SD: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8186K is a Piper PA-25, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Black Hills Soaring Club INC, a corporation in Rapid City, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial advertising, dated March 7, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Black Hills Soaring Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 11, 2014, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 7, 2000, 40 years after the 1960 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 25163 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8186K was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Keller Gerald D J-3 KITTEN (serial 543, cancelled July 27, 1995); Gulfstream-Schweizer A/C Corp GULFSTREAM AM G-164B (serial 605B, cancelled November 17, 1982); Stinson 108-1 (serial 108-1186, cancelled October 11, 1956). 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 N8186K: Accident on July 12, 2025 at Hot Springs, SD: fatal, substantial damage (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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"25163","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2310 ARROYO CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00451256","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8186K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1960,"zip":"577025112"}