{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2011-08-10","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-06-29","city":"GAINESVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"097","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42389","engine_horsepower":150,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-6","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Paul E Schad","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PAUL E SCHAD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056303Q","mode_s_code":"53341455","mode_s_hex":"ADC32D","model":"RV-6","n_number":"N986TX","name":"SCHAD PAUL E","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N986TX is a Paul E Schad RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gainesville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 10, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Schad Paul E, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 10, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25149 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N986TX 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 N986TX. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"25149","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2961 FM 1630","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01070854","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N986TX","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"762401225"}