{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-07-09","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-06-16","city":"PISMO BEACH","country_code":"US","county_code":"079","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55623","engine_horsepower":160,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"916 IS A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"RANS DESIGNS INC","kit_model":"S-21 OUTBOUND","last_action_date":"2025-06-16","maker":"Eric Neil Paton","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ERIC NEIL PATON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056427P","mode_s_code":"53015756","mode_s_hex":"AC1BEE","model":"RANS S-21","n_number":"N88EP","name":"PATON ERIC NEIL","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Stuart","damage":"SUBS","date":"2011-05-03","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA11CA284","probable_cause":"The student pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.","registration":"N88EP","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on May 3, 2011 at Stuart, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Fort Pierce","damage":"SUBS","date":"2010-02-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA10CA213","probable_cause":"The student pilot\u2019s improper flare and recovery from a bounced landing.","registration":"N88EP","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on February 23, 2010 at Fort Pierce, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N88EP is an Eric Neil Paton RANS S-21, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pismo Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Paton Eric Neil, an individual, certificate issued June 16, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12230367 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N88EP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17276538, cancelled May 6, 2019). 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":"2 NTSB records under N88EP: Accident on May 3, 2011 at Stuart, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 23, 2010 at Fort Pierce, FL: 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"12230367","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"202 ENCANTO AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01502195","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N88EP","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"934491507"}