{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1996-05-24","airworthiness_ops":"Aerial advertising","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-03-28","city":"BEAUMONT","country_code":"US","county_code":"245","cruise_speed_mph":81,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52008","engine_horsepower":450,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R-985 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-05-15","maker":"Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN ACFT ENG COR-SCHWEIZER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3952801","mode_s_code":"53062554","mode_s_hex":"AC656C","model":"G-164A","n_number":"N8980H","name":"LEGER JEFFERY S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CHENOA","damage":"SUBS","date":"1988-08-03","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI88DEV04","probable_cause":"UNAVAILABILITY OF SUITABLE TERRAIN ON WHICH TO ACCOMPLISH A FORCED LANDING.","registration":"N8980H","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on August 3, 1988 at Chenoa, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8980H is a Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Beaumont, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated May 24, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Leger Jeffery S, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for aerial advertising; 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 1603 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8980H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Navion L-17A (serial 980, cancelled October 6, 1947). 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 N8980H: Accident on August 3, 1988 at Chenoa, IL: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"1603","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"392 GALLIER RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00861551","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8980H","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"777133840"}