{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2020-09-08","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-02-27","city":"GROVELAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"069","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":"2027-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-09","maker":"Spealman John M","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SPEALMAN JOHN M","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05647AW","mode_s_code":"53100161","mode_s_hex":"AC8071","model":"HP-18","n_number":"N9040S","name":"PACK FLIGHT SERVICES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9040S is a Spealman John M HP-18, a glider with no engine, built in 1979. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Pack Flight Services LLC, an LLC in Groveland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 8, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Pack Flight Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 27, 2020, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 8, 2020, 41 years after the 1979 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 43 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9040S 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 N9040S. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"43","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"20241 GRASS ROOTS RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00351311","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9040S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"347368524"}