{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1977-03-18","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-10-06","city":"ELIZABETH CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"139","cruise_speed_mph":131,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41527","engine_horsepower":295,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"GO-480 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Grumman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3951502","mode_s_code":"53362132","mode_s_hex":"ADE45A","model":"G-44","n_number":"N99431","name":"SMALL GASTON ELVIN III","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FOND DU LAC","damage":"SUBS","date":"1983-04-19","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CHI83LA173","probable_cause":"","registration":"N99431","state":"WI","summary":"Accident on April 19, 1983 at Fond Du Lac, WI: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N99431 is a Grumman G-44, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 18, 1977.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Small Gaston Elvin III, an individual, certificate issued October 6, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1265 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N99431 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-C (serial 2054, cancelled March 2, 1965). 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 N99431: Accident on April 19, 1983 at Fond Du Lac, WI: 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":5,"serial_number":"1265","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"725 GRIFFIN SWAMP RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00843410","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N99431","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"279097133"}