{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1966-09-21","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-09-13","city":"ERIE","country_code":"US","county_code":"123","cruise_speed_mph":126,"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":"2028-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-10","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103206","mode_s_code":"52722503","mode_s_hex":"ABA543","model":"PA-32-260","n_number":"N85CT","name":"AEROBSESSION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Broomfield","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-05-22","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN22FA208","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to abort the takeoff due to degraded engine performance. Contributing to the accident was the reduced performance of the engine, the reason for which could not be determined.","registration":"N85CT","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on May 22, 2022 at Broomfield, CO: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N85CT is a Piper PA-32-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Aerobsession LLC, an LLC in Erie, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1966.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Aerobsession LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 13, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-789 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N85CT 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":"1 NTSB record under N85CT: Accident on May 22, 2022 at Broomfield, CO: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"32-789","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1827 ALPINE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00980394","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N85CT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1966,"zip":"805164014"}