{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1990-04-24","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-02-28","city":"MAPLE VALLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-05-14","maker":"Schempp-Hirth","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"SCHEMPP-HIRTH","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"38019VN","mode_s_code":"53210721","mode_s_hex":"AD11D1","model":"DISCUS B","n_number":"N941KS","name":"CRIPPEN TERRENCE M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N941KS is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B, a glider with no engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Maple Valley, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated April 24, 1990.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Crippen Terrence M, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 24, 1990, 5 years after the 1985 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 13 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N941KS 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 N941KS. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"13","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"21639 SE 253RD PL","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00770895","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N941KS","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":1985,"zip":"980387555"}