{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-12-01","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-11-22","city":"TAMPA","country_code":"US","county_code":"057","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41569","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TIO 540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-01","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7104620","mode_s_code":"53300624","mode_s_hex":"AD8194","model":"PA 46-350P","n_number":"N97CX","name":"GOLD AERO AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"North Las Vegas","damage":"DEST","date":"2022-07-17","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA22FA318","probable_cause":"The low-wing airplane pilot\u2019s failure to ensure that the airplane was aligned with the correct runway, which resulted in a collision with the high-wing airplane on final approach. Contributing to the accident was the controller\u2019s failure to provide timely and adequate traffic information to either airplane and his failure to recognize the developing conflict and to act in a timely manner. Also contributing was the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s insufficient staffing of the facility, which required excessive overtime that did not allow for proper controller training or adequate recovery time between shifts.","registration":"N97CX","state":"NV","summary":"Accident on July 17, 2022 at North Las Vegas, NV: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N97CX is a Piper PA 46-350P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Gold Aero Aviation LLC, an LLC in Tampa, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 1, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gold Aero Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 22, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 1, 1999, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4636128 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N97CX 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 N97CX: Accident on July 17, 2022 at North Las Vegas, NV: fatal, destroyed (4 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"4636128","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1300 N WEST SHORE BLVD STE 220","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00466052","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N97CX","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"336074632"}