{"airworthiness_class":"Multiple","airworthiness_date":"1969-07-01","airworthiness_ops":"Standard; Restricted; Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-11-21","city":"BRACKETTVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"271","cruise_speed_mph":139,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41509","engine_horsepower":150,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103002","mode_s_code":"52676412","mode_s_hex":"AB7D0A","model":"PA-30","n_number":"N8396Y","name":"PERKINS CHRISTOPHER R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8396Y is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Brackettville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated July 1, 1969.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Perkins Christopher R, an individual, certificate issued November 21, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated July 1, 1969, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-1492 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8396Y 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N8396Y. 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":6,"serial_number":"30-1492","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 1947","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00652123","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8396Y","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1967,"zip":"788321947"}