{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-12-29","city":"TYNDALL","country_code":"US","county_code":"009","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":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-9","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Plihal Joseph A Jr","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PLIHAL JOSEPH A JR","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056270C","mode_s_code":"53350515","mode_s_hex":"ADD14D","model":"RV-9","n_number":"N99LJ","name":"PLIHAL JOSEPH A JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N99LJ is a Plihal Joseph A Jr RV-9, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tyndall, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2022 and expires on December 31, 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 Plihal Joseph A JR, an individual, certificate issued December 29, 2022, expires December 31, 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 91489 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N99LJ was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Tabor Jay F GLASTAR GS-1 (serial 5077, cancelled December 30, 2003); Cessna 182E (serial 18254391, cancelled December 21, 1978). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N99LJ. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"91489","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 419","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01026754","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N99LJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"570660419"}