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The Suspense is killing me! (airworthiness document search)

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Hello - I was doing a document search for a plane I am considering here:  http://aircraft.faa.gov/e.gov/ND/  (which by the way is only $10 rather than the hefty fee some services charge you.)

I was just curious, it returned a result of how many pages I can expect in the report and this caught my eye... 6 pages of "suspense"?  Anyone know what that is?  I've only ever seen the registration and airworthiness documents here.  (the accident stuff you pull from a different site).

Any insight here?

 

N-Number Serial Mfr Model # of Pages Cost
Remove xxxxx 28R-xxxxx PIPER PA-28R-200 Registration - 80
Airworthiness - 36
Suspense - 6		 $10.00

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    Kris Kortokrax on Aug 14, 2019

    The suspense file contains any pending stuff. For example, if someone submits a registration application and signs it with the wrong title (owner instead of manager or president).

    It also would contain letters sent concerning an application missing information.

    It could also contain correspondence returned for a bad address.

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  2. ayavner on Aug 14, 2019

    Thanks Kris – so not necessarily a “ding” but just something that bears looking over.

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  3. ayavner on Aug 15, 2019

    Just to follow up – in this case it turned out to be a letter from the owner to the FAA from 1995 requesting release of a lien noted in the title search.

    Looks pretty clean otherwise, all the 337s were there except for a recent battery change which requires an STC and 337. Easily overlooked. None of the STC papers showed up in the airworthiness search, which I am not sure if that is required as long as the owner has them or if they should have had copies sent in along with the 337s.

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  4. Mark Kolber on Aug 16, 2019

    So, is there a lien or not?

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  5. ayavner on Aug 16, 2019

    Nope.

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  6. KDS on Aug 16, 2019

    I want to speak to this statements:

    None of the STC papers showed up in the airworthiness search, which I am not sure if that is required as long as the owner has them

    I learned that one the way I seem to have to learn everything in life, the hard way. I blindly bought into an airplane that had an STC. However, the STC papers were missing. Then one day something “fell off” of the airplane (literally). No problem I thought. We’ll just un-STC the airplane. But the mechanic said he would need the STC to remove the STC. When he explained it, the logic made sense. The STC might say to do several things as part of the installation process. He can’t certify that he has completely undone the whole STC if he doesn’t know what was done to put it on.

    So then try to get a copy of the STC. The original company went out of business and sold it to another company. That company sold it to an individual. That individual said he retired down south and he thinks the STC is in his paperwork in his other home up north. He’ll check for me next summer when he goes back north.

    In more recent years, I’ve taken to scanning every document that I might need later, just in case.

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