{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1999-09-18","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-12-22","city":"LEXINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Bac Jet Provost","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BAC JET PROVOST","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05625UF","mode_s_code":"52646621","mode_s_hex":"AB4D91","model":"P84 MK 4","n_number":"N8272Y","name":"MANTEI & ASSOCIATES","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CUPERTINO","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-09-21","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX91FA399","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN THE PROPER ALTITUDE, HIS IMPROPER INFLIGHT DECISION TO ATTEMPT FLIGHT BELOW THE BASE OF AN OVERCAST LAYER OF CLOUDS TOWARD RISING MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN AND THE FLIGHT'S INADVERTENT ENTRY INTO INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS. FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE PILOT'S MISJUDGED WEATHER EVALUATION AND HIS IMPROPER VFR PROCEDURES.","registration":"N8272Y","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on September 21, 1991 at Cupertino, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"MONUMENT VALLEY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1986-07-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DEN86LA217","probable_cause":"","registration":"N8272Y","state":"UT","summary":"Accident on July 30, 1986 at Monument Valley, UT: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"JUNCTION","damage":"SUBS","date":"1983-10-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW84LA011","probable_cause":"","registration":"N8272Y","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on October 8, 1983 at Junction, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8272Y is a Bac Jet Provost P84 MK 4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mantei & Associates, a corporation in Lexington, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 18, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mantei & Associates, a corporation, certificate issued December 22, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 1999, 34 years after the 1965 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 XR704 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8272Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 288190045, cancelled December 9, 1991); Piper PA-30 (serial 30-1401, cancelled March 9, 1967). 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":"3 NTSB records under N8272Y: Accident on September 21, 1991 at Cupertino, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on July 30, 1986 at Monument Valley, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 8, 1983 at Junction, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"XR704","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4580 SUNSET BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turbojet","type_engine_code":"4","unique_id":"00765402","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8272Y","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1965,"zip":"290729250"}