{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2002-07-16","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-10-16","city":"BEAVERTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"051","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":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Curtiss-Wright-Kittyhawk Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CURTISS-WRIGHT-KITTYHAWK LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2622201","mode_s_code":"53206462","mode_s_hex":"AD0D32","model":"P-40E","n_number":"N940AK","name":"P40 KITTYHAWK LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PHELPS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1995-05-11","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"BFO95LA052","probable_cause":"Loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. A factor related to the accident was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.","registration":"N940AK","state":"NY","summary":"Accident on May 11, 1995 at Phelps, NY: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N940AK is a Curtiss-Wright-Kittyhawk Ltd P-40E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 1 seat. It is registered to P40 Kittyhawk LLC, an LLC in Beaverton, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 16, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to P40 Kittyhawk LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 16, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 16, 2002, 61 years after the 1941 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 15321 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N940AK 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":"1 NTSB record under N940AK: Accident on May 11, 1995 at Phelps, NY: serious 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"15321","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"9800 SW NIMBUS AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00920251","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N940AK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1941,"zip":"970087197"}