{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-01-12","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-03-21","city":"STUTTGART","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":150,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41530","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102308","mode_s_code":"52641413","mode_s_hex":"AB430B","model":"PA-23-250","n_number":"N8247G","name":"CITY OF STUTTGART","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HANCOCK","damage":"DEST","date":"1993-05-17","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"BFO93FA093","probable_cause":"IMPROPER PLANNING/DECISION BY THE PILOT, HIS INITIATION OF VFR FLT INTO INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (IMC), AND HIS LOSS OF AIRCRAFT CONTROL DUE TO SPATIAL DISORIENTATION. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE FOG, RAIN, THE PILOT'S SELF INDUCED PRESSURE, AND HIS LACK OF INSTRUMENT EXPERIENCE.","registration":"N8247G","state":"MD","summary":"Accident on May 17, 1993 at Hancock, MD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8247G is a Piper PA-23-250, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to City Of Stuttgart, a government body in Stuttgart, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2005 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 12, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to City Of Stuttgart, a government body, certificate issued March 21, 2005, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 12, 1999, 26 years after the 1973 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 27-7305012 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8247G was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28RT-201 (serial 28R8018095, cancelled May 3, 1994); Cessna 177RG (serial 177R G0147, cancelled April 20, 1972). 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 N8247G: Accident on May 17, 1993 at Hancock, MD: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":6,"serial_number":"27-7305012","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"304 SOUTH MAPLE ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00253886","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8247G","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1973,"zip":"72160"}