{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2016-05-06","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-09-10","city":"THOMPSONS STATION","country_code":"US","county_code":"187","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41881","engine_horsepower":200,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-360 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-09","maker":"Sumpter","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SUMPTER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7220646","mode_s_code":"52744306","mode_s_hex":"ABC8C6","model":"PITTS S-1S","n_number":"N859","name":"FLAMINI MATTHEW D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N859 is a Sumpter PITTS S-1S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Thompsons Station, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2011 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Flamini Matthew D, an individual, certificate issued September 10, 2011, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 6, 2016, 39 years after the 1977 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 1SP for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N859 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Starr Knight SKYE-RYDER II (serial 9411272, cancelled September 20, 1996); Buehler VARIEZE (serial 1125, cancelled March 21, 1989); Curtiss Airplane & Motor ORIOLE (serial S-1 SUB, cancelled July 15, 1932). 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 N859. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"1SP","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3085 AMERICUS DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00400547","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N859","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1977,"zip":"371799610"}