{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2016-09-27","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-02-25","city":"BEAVERTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"051","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-18","maker":"Schempp-Hirth","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3801964","mode_s_code":"53034063","mode_s_hex":"AC3833","model":"ARCUS","n_number":"N887DT","name":"PERLAN PROJECT INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N887DT is a Schempp-Hirth ARCUS, a glider with no engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Perlan Project INC, a corporation in Beaverton, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 27, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Perlan Project INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 25, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated September 27, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N887DT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 1329-25 JETSTAR II (serial 5223, cancelled September 19, 2008). 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 N887DT. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"20","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7415 SW HART PL","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01229231","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N887DT","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"970086231"}