{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2021-08-20","airworthiness_ops":"Airplane","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-07-30","city":"SOUTH BEND","country_code":"US","county_code":"141","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55593","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912 IS","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Vans Aircraft Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"069002L","mode_s_code":"53315577","mode_s_hex":"AD9B7F","model":"RV-12IS","n_number":"N976S","name":"BEYOND THE BLUE LLP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Macon","damage":"SUBS","date":"2012-05-31","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA12FA376","probable_cause":"The pilot's decision to continue flight into an area of known thunderstorms, which resulted in an in-flight breakup. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of experience in actual instrument meteorological conditions and his reliance on datalink weather radar imagery for tactical avoidance of convective weather.","registration":"N976S","state":"MS","summary":"Accident on May 31, 2012 at Macon, MS: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N976S is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Beyond The Blue LLP, a partnership in South Bend, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated August 20, 2021.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Beyond The Blue LLP, a partnership, certificate issued July 30, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Light sport certificate for airplane, dated August 20, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12101 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N976S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company A36 (serial E-3370, cancelled May 21, 2015). 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 N976S: Accident on May 31, 2012 at Macon, MS: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Partnership","registrant_type_code":"2","seats":2,"serial_number":"12101","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"55765 PINE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01340455","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N976S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2021,"zip":"466191041"}