{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1991-08-12","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-06-27","city":"SEARCY","country_code":"US","county_code":"145","cruise_speed_mph":165,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17042","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO-550 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Beech","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BEECH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1152740","mode_s_code":"52641451","mode_s_hex":"AB4329","model":"58","n_number":"N8248B","name":"SMITH KIRK A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"SMITH KRISTEN R","plain_english":"N8248B is a Beech 58, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Searcy, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1991.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Smith Kirk A, a co-owned, certificate issued June 27, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TH-1633 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8248B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200T (serial 348070329, cancelled June 22, 1988); Cessna 172 (serial 36048, cancelled August 23, 1957). 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 N8248B. 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":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":6,"serial_number":"TH-1633","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5606 HIGHWAY 13","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00785571","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8248B","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1991,"zip":"721438048"}