{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2006-09-11","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-19","city":"CLARKSVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"125","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55567","engine_horsepower":52,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"503DCSI","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-19","maker":"Reams Arnold D","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"REAMS ARNOLD D","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05901HZ","mode_s_code":"53000706","mode_s_hex":"AC01C6","model":"CHALLENGER II","n_number":"N873D","name":"MERRIMAN JOHN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N873D is a Reams Arnold D CHALLENGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Clarksville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 11, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Merriman John, an individual, certificate issued February 19, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH2-1295-1434 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N873D 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N873D. 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":2,"serial_number":"CH2-1295-1434","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"141 MAYHEW RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00266579","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N873D","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"370407438"}