{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2019-11-04","airworthiness_ops":"Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-12-20","city":"DOVER","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"40891","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-360-M1A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Vulcanair S P A","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"VULCANAIR S P A","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"6780115","mode_s_code":"53322560","mode_s_hex":"ADA570","model":"VULCANAIR V1.0","n_number":"N979DS","name":"DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Salisbury","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-07-22","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA22LA339","probable_cause":"The student pilot\u2019s improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing.","registration":"N979DS","state":"MD","summary":"Accident on July 22, 2022 at Salisbury, MD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"AVIATION PROGRAM","plain_english":"N979DS is a Vulcanair S P A VULCANAIR V1.0, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Delaware State University, a government body in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 4, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Delaware State University, a government body, certificate issued December 20, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for utility, dated November 4, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1024 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N979DS 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 N979DS: Accident on July 22, 2022 at Salisbury, MD: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":4,"serial_number":"1024","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1200 N DUPONT HWY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01307480","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N979DS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2019,"zip":"199012202"}