{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-11-03","city":"OLATHE","country_code":"US","county_code":"091","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Edward M Van Morlan","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EDWARD M VAN MORLAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05638JS","mode_s_code":"53324500","mode_s_hex":"ADA940","model":"PIETENPOL","n_number":"N98ES","name":"VAN MORLAN EDWARD M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Gardner","damage":"SUBS","date":"2015-09-28","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CEN15LA431","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadequate airspeed control and the airplane\u2019s exceedance of its critical angle-of-attack during the forced landing, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall. Contributing to the accident was the loss of engine power due to fuel starvation caused by contaminants in the fuel tank.","registration":"N98ES","state":"KS","summary":"Accident on September 28, 2015 at Gardner, KS: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N98ES is an Edward M Van Morlan PIETENPOL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Olathe, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 3, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Van Morlan Edward M, an individual, certificate issued November 3, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1172 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N98ES was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Edward M Van Morlan RANS S-12 (serial 12111027, cancelled January 2, 2019); Cessna 172R (serial 17280202, cancelled October 15, 1997). 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":"1 NTSB record under N98ES: Accident on September 28, 2015 at Gardner, KS: serious 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"1172","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"118 N CHERRY ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01291315","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N98ES","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"660613401"}