{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2020-11-10","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"BOULDER","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"29076","engine_horsepower":1100,"engine_maker":"GARRETT","engine_model":"TPE331-12B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-21","maker":"Short Brothers Plc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SHORT BROTHERS PLC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8100527","mode_s_code":"53040067","mode_s_hex":"AC4037","model":"S312 TUCANO T MK1","n_number":"N889KT","name":"FALCON AIR INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"LODI","damage":"SUBS","date":"1992-01-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX92LA076","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S IMPROPER USE OF THE CARBURETOR HEAT CONTROL AND DELAY IN FLARING THE HELICOPTER FOR AN AUTOROTATIVE TOUCHDOWN. CARBURETOR ICING CONDITIONS AND THE SOFT TERRAIN WERE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT.","registration":"N889KT","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on January 1, 1992 at Lodi, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N889KT is a Short Brothers Plc S312 TUCANO T MK1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1992. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Falcon Air INC, a corporation in Boulder, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on  and expires on . It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 10, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Falcon Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 10, 2020, 28 years after the 1992 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T125 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N889KT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1158, cancelled January 25, 1993). 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":"1 NTSB record under N889KT: Accident on January 1, 1992 at Lodi, CA: no 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"T125","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2079 HARDSCRABBLE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01290685","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N889KT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1992,"zip":"803057136"}