{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1966-08-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Acrobatic","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-09-09","city":"BROOKINGS","country_code":"US","county_code":"011","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-10","maker":"Champion","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CHAMPION","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"21101N8","mode_s_code":"52672352","mode_s_hex":"AB74EA","model":"7GCAA","n_number":"N8371V","name":"PRAIRIE THERMALS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ARLINGTON","damage":"SUBS","date":"2000-03-31","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI00LA108","probable_cause":"the CFI's improper use of the throttle control during a simulated loss of engine power emergency.  A factor associated with the accident was the rough terrain on which the forced landing was conducted.","registration":"N8371V","state":"SD","summary":"Accident on March 31, 2000 at Arlington, SD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8371V is a Champion 7GCAA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Prairie Thermals LLC, an LLC in Brookings, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 20, 1966.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Prairie Thermals LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 9, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated August 20, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8371V according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N8371V: Accident on March 31, 2000 at Arlington, SD: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"82","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3028 US HIGHWAY 14 BYP","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00413231","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8371V","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1966,"zip":"570064316"}