John M East SAFARI 400
N956PM is a John M East SAFARI 400, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Glennallen, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 30, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- John M East
- Model
- SAFARI 400
- Serial number
- CH1502
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Aerosport O-360 A2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Kit
- CHR INTERNATIONAL INC SAFARI 400
- Transponder code
- AD4C42 (octal 53246102)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 30, 2015
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 01179637
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sparks James D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 294
Glennallen, AK 99588-0294
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N956PM, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Sparks James D, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 30, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH1502 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N956PM according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N956PM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data