{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2002-03-22","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-03-14","city":"FORT PIERCE","country_code":"US","county_code":"111","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-28","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102803","mode_s_code":"53340317","mode_s_hex":"ADC0CF","model":"PA-28-161","n_number":"N9855S","name":"ARI BEN AVIATIOR INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Fort Pierce","damage":"DEST","date":"2023-08-17","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA23FA340","probable_cause":"The left seat instructor\u2019s intentional maneuvering of the airplane in an aerobatic steep turn for which it was not approved, which resulted in an exceedance of the structural limitations of the airplane and an inflight breakup.","registration":"N9855S","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on August 17, 2023 at Fort Pierce, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Graham","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-09-04","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW02CA249","probable_cause":"the pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point which resulted in a runway overrun.","registration":"N9855S","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on September 4, 2002 at Graham, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9855S is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ari Ben Aviatior INC, a corporation in Fort Pierce, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ari Ben Aviatior INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 14, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842151 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9855S 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":"2 NTSB records under N9855S: Accident on August 17, 2023 at Fort Pierce, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on September 4, 2002 at Graham, TX: 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"2842151","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3800 SAINT LUCIE BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00574077","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9855S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"349469022"}