{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2016-05-06","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-02-12","city":"CHANDLER","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2031-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"VIPER AIRCRAFT CORP","kit_model":"VIPERJET MK II","last_action_date":"2026-06-03","maker":"David G Thomas/Thomas Aerospac","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DAVID G THOMAS/THOMAS AEROSPAC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05634CA","mode_s_code":"53032051","mode_s_hex":"AC3429","model":"VIPERJET MK II","n_number":"N886AK","name":"INITIAL APPROACH AEROSPACE CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N886AK is a David G Thomas/Thomas Aerospac VIPERJET MK II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Initial Approach Aerospace CORP, a corporation in Chandler, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Initial Approach Aerospace CORP, a corporation, certificate issued February 12, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; 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 008 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N886AK 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 N886AK. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"008","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"100 N HEARTHSTONE WAY APT 2215","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turbojet","type_engine_code":"4","unique_id":"01180170","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N886AK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"852260040"}