{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2003-10-25","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2003-01-30","city":"COSTA MESA","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-6","last_action_date":"2023-07-28","maker":"Johnson Thomas R","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JOHNSON THOMAS R","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056147B","mode_s_code":"53255577","mode_s_hex":"AD5B7F","model":"VANS RV-6","n_number":"N96TJ","name":"JOHNSON THOMAS R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SUGAR LAND","damage":"SUBS","date":"1997-06-25","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW97LA234","probable_cause":"the pilot's improper landing flare and improper recovery from a bounced landing.","registration":"N96TJ","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on June 25, 1997 at Sugar Land, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N96TJ is a Johnson Thomas R VANS RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Costa Mesa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 25, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Johnson Thomas R, an individual, certificate issued January 30, 2003, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 25, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23657 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N96TJ 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 N96TJ: Accident on June 25, 1997 at Sugar Land, 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"23657","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3131 COLLEGE AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00028859","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N96TJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"926262640"}