{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2006-06-10","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-05-08","city":"ZEBULON","country_code":"US","county_code":"183","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"09050","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"BOMBARDIER","engine_model":"ROTAX (ALL)","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"ROCKY MOUNTAIN WINGS LLC","kit_model":"RIDGE RUNNER 3","last_action_date":"2025-05-08","maker":"Walls Rodney","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"WALLS RODNEY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05620IJ","mode_s_code":"53241107","mode_s_hex":"AD4247","model":"RIDGE RUNNER III","n_number":"N9531","name":"NORTH CAROLINA SOARING FOUNDATION","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9531 is a Walls Rodney RIDGE RUNNER III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to North Carolina Soaring Foundation, a corporation in Zebulon, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 10, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to North Carolina Soaring Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued May 8, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; 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 100202084 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9531 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 N9531. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"100202084","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"66 SWETTS DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00206889","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9531","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"275976037"}