{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2005-09-23","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-03-26","city":"GOWEN","country_code":"US","county_code":"117","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17003","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"A&C65 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Wheeler Jasper L","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"WHEELER JASPER L","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05603S5","mode_s_code":"52756662","mode_s_hex":"ABDDB2","model":"1 BI-FLYBABY","n_number":"N864","name":"BUDS AUTO PARTS LTD","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N864 is a Wheeler Jasper L 1 BI-FLYBABY, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Buds Auto Parts LTD, a corporation in Gowen, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 23, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Buds Auto Parts LTD, a corporation, certificate issued March 26, 2014, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 23, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N864 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-58B (serial 58539, cancelled June 23, 1958); Stillman And Company LINCOLN SPORT (serial 1, cancelled February 28, 1930). 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 N864. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"1","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4490 MONTCALM","street2":"RR 1","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00776121","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N864","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2005,"zip":"49326"}