{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2003-07-17","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-01-27","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"129","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-15"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55555","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"SEE BOMBADIER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"SLIPSTREAM INDUSTRIES INC","kit_model":"GENESIS","last_action_date":"2025-03-14","maker":"Banes John R","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BANES JOHN R","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05611L9","mode_s_code":"53131525","mode_s_hex":"ACB355","model":"GENESIS","n_number":"N9172L","name":"CURLEY PAUL T","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SKWENTNA","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-09-12","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC91LA149","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE IN NOT MAINTAINING AIRCRAFT CONTROL ON LANDING. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE ROUGH, UNEVEN TERRAIN AND A WET AND SLICK LANDING AREA.","registration":"N9172L","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on September 12, 1991 at Skwentna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9172L is a Banes John R GENESIS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wilmington, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 17, 2003. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Curley Paul T, an individual, certificate issued January 27, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; 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 032 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9172L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 7ACA (serial 2972, cancelled January 31, 1995). 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":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N9172L: Accident on September 12, 1991 at Skwentna, AK: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"032","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"325 WINDSONG RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00133814","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9172L","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"284119165"}