{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2006-07-11","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-04-15","city":"BATTLE CREEK","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17160","engine_horsepower":210,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO-360-ES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-12","maker":"Cirrus Design Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CIRRUS DESIGN CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2130000","mode_s_code":"52603577","mode_s_hex":"AB077F","model":"SR20","n_number":"N81EZ","name":"BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"TUCSON","damage":"DEST","date":"1998-12-18","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX99FA052","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to attain and maintain an adequate flying airspeed during the aircraft's maiden flight, which resulted in a stall/mush condition.  Also causal was the pilot/builder's decision to modify the engine and the fuel system control microchip, which resulted in detonation and a severe reduction in power output, and led directly to the pilot's inability to attain and maintain airspeed.","registration":"N81EZ","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on December 18, 1998 at Tucson, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N81EZ is a Cirrus Design Corp SR20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University, a government body in Battle Creek, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 11, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University, a government body, certificate issued April 15, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated July 11, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1686 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N81EZ was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Parkman Stephen C VARI-EZE (serial 000001-1, cancelled March 8, 2001); Newland Grant A RUTAN VARI-EZE (serial 811, cancelled January 8, 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 N81EZ: Accident on December 18, 1998 at Tucson, AZ: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":4,"serial_number":"1686","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"237 HELMER RD N","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00269639","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N81EZ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2006,"zip":"490377917"}