{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1981-04-27","airworthiness_ops":"Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-03-30","city":"EAGLE RIVER","country_code":"US","county_code":"020","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"67041","engine_horsepower":3250,"engine_maker":"WRIGHT","engine_model":"R3350-42","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Fairchild","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FAIRCHILD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3372102","mode_s_code":"52724750","mode_s_hex":"ABA9E8","model":"C-119","n_number":"N8501W","name":"REFFETT JOHN S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8501W is a Fairchild C-119, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 52 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eagle River, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated April 27, 1981.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Reffett John S, an individual, certificate issued March 30, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 27, 1981, 29 years after the 1952 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 10880 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8501W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-235 (serial 2810002, cancelled December 1, 1965). 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 N8501W. 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":52,"serial_number":"10880","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 770863","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00152811","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8501W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1952,"zip":"995770863"}