{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1963-09-17","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1990-07-17","city":"EUREKA","country_code":"US","county_code":"023","cruise_speed_mph":107,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41532","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-540 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102810","mode_s_code":"52733045","mode_s_hex":"ABB625","model":"PA-28-235","n_number":"N8539W","name":"MCCARTHY ROYAL B","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8539W is a Piper PA-28-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eureka, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 1990 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 17, 1963.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mccarthy Royal B, an individual, certificate issued July 17, 1990, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated September 17, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-10040 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8539W 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 N8539W. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"28-10040","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2126 HODGSON ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00202721","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8539W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1963,"zip":"955035616"}