{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2021-08-16","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-08-21","city":"TEXARKANA","country_code":"US","county_code":"091","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42089","engine_horsepower":130,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-290-D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-25","maker":"Gerald Nelson","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GERALD NELSON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05638SB","mode_s_code":"53001645","mode_s_hex":"AC03A5","model":"NELSON SPECIAL","n_number":"N873YD","name":"NELSON GERALD R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hope","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-05-29","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CEN25LA190","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain airplane control during the landing roll.","registration":"N873YD","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on May 29, 2025 at Hope, AR: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N873YD is a Gerald Nelson NELSON SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Texarkana, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 16, 2021.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Nelson Gerald R, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 16, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1931 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N873YD 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 N873YD: Accident on May 29, 2025 at Hope, AR: minor 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1931","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"109 SUGAR RIDGE LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01300265","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N873YD","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2021,"zip":"718549208"}