{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1960-11-18","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-06-26","city":"LEAWOOD","country_code":"US","county_code":"091","cruise_speed_mph":172,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41533","engine_horsepower":310,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TI0-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-10-18","maker":"Aero Commander","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AERO COMMANDER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0141106","mode_s_code":"53130524","mode_s_hex":"ACB154","model":"500-B","n_number":"N917GT","name":"CENTRAL AIRLINES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Lubbock","damage":"SUBS","date":"2013-10-31","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN14LA065","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to complete a landing checklist and extend the landing gear, which resulted in a gear-up landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's diverted attention to the weather during approach.","registration":"N917GT","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on October 31, 2013 at Lubbock, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N917GT is an Aero Commander 500-B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Central Airlines INC, a corporation in Leawood, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 18, 1960.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Central Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 26, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate, dated November 18, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 500B-983-24 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N917GT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 500-B (serial 500B-1137-77, cancelled October 7, 2020). 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 N917GT: Accident on October 31, 2013 at Lubbock, TX: 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":7,"serial_number":"500B-983-24","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"9015 ENSLEY LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00861516","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N917GT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1960,"zip":"662061778"}