{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2022-06-10","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-05-14","city":"CHARLESTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42186","engine_horsepower":280,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"GO-480-G2F6","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-01-17","maker":"Pilatus Flugzeugwerkeag Stans","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PILATUS FLUGZEUGWERKEAG STANS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7090109","mode_s_code":"52754774","mode_s_hex":"ABD9FC","model":"P3-05","n_number":"N863A","name":"GREAT CIRCLE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"STANLEY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1988-01-03","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI88LA043","probable_cause":"","registration":"N863A","state":"WI","summary":"Accident on January 3, 1988 at Stanley, WI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N863A is a Pilatus Flugzeugwerkeag Stans P3-05, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Great Circle LLC, an LLC in Charleston, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 10, 2022.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Great Circle LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 14, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 10, 2022, 64 years after the 1958 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 501-50 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N863A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22 (serial 22166, cancelled April 26, 1994). 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":"1 NTSB record under N863A: Accident on January 3, 1988 at Stanley, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"501-50","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"89 LOGAN ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01341843","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N863A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1958,"zip":"294011944"}