{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2005-05-23","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition; Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-10-06","city":"COSTA MESA","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":79,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-23","maker":"Szybowcowy Zaklad Doswiadczaln","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SZYBOWCOWY ZAKLAD DOSWIADCZALN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8821640","mode_s_code":"53325443","mode_s_hex":"ADAB23","model":"JANTAR-2A-SZD 42-1","n_number":"N980","name":"WILLEMS STEVEN D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N980 is a Szybowcowy Zaklad Doswiadczaln JANTAR-2A-SZD 42-1, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Costa Mesa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2009 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 23, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Willems Steven D, an individual, certificate issued October 6, 2009, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 23, 2005, 29 years after the 1976 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial X-128 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N980 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Sikorsky S62A (serial 62010, cancelled February 6, 1967); Waco GXE (serial G-867, cancelled March 4, 1948). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N980. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"X-128","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3496 WIMBLEDON WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00283780","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N980","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"926261642"}