{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2026-03-21","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-06-12","city":"NICHOLASVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42710","engine_horsepower":215,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-390-C3B6","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-12","maker":"Cirrus Design Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CIRRUS DESIGN CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2130000","mode_s_code":"52744362","mode_s_hex":"ABC8F2","model":"SR20","n_number":"N859BT","name":"BOYD THORNTON AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N859BT is a Cirrus Design Corp SR20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2026. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Boyd Thornton Aviation LLC, an LLC in Nicholasville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 21, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Boyd Thornton Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 12, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated March 21, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11286 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N859BT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Textron Aviation Inc 208B (serial 208B5502, cancelled April 18, 2019). 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 N859BT. 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"11286","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3867 UNION MILL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01541003","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N859BT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2026,"zip":"403568301"}