{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1971-06-18","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-12-02","city":"RALEIGH","country_code":"US","county_code":"183","cruise_speed_mph":60,"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":"2031-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-12-02","maker":"Glasflugel","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GLASFLUGEL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3800343","mode_s_code":"53354755","mode_s_hex":"ADD9ED","model":"KESTREL","n_number":"N9919","name":"PHELPS THOMAS L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Little Switzerland","damage":"SUBS","date":"2026-03-05","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ERA26LA138","probable_cause":"A loss of thermal lift during a glider flight, which resulted in a collision with trees during a landing approach to a diversionary airport.","registration":"N9919","state":"NC","summary":"Accident on March 5, 2026 at Little Switzerland, NC: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9919 is a Glasflugel KESTREL, a glider with no engine, built in 1969. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 18, 1971.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Phelps Thomas L, an individual, certificate issued December 2, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider, dated June 18, 1971, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9919 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Travel Air S-2000 (serial 1109, cancelled April 15, 1934). 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 N9919: Accident on March 5, 2026 at Little Switzerland, NC: minor 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"4","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5704 BRAMBLEWOOD DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00283480","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9919","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1969,"zip":"276122290"}