{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2019-02-14","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-07-13","city":"PITTSBORO","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41710","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"YIO-360 EXP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-8","last_action_date":"2023-07-13","maker":"Metzler Alan J","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"METZLER ALAN J","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05638AL","mode_s_code":"53335011","mode_s_hex":"ADBA09","model":"VANS ACFT INC RV-8","n_number":"N984AJ","name":"WATERS TRACY J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N984AJ is a Metzler Alan J VANS ACFT INC RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 14, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Waters Tracy J, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 14, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83491 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N984AJ 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N984AJ. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"83491","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"532 SEAFORTH RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01289571","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N984AJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2019,"zip":"273127630"}