{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-01-25","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","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":"2029-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-04","maker":"Eclipse Aviation Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ECLIPSE AVIATION CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3350000","mode_s_code":"50043231","mode_s_hex":"A04699","model":"EA500","n_number":"N117EA","name":"CORDITE INC TRUSTEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ERIE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1986-11-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC87LA041","probable_cause":"","registration":"N117EA","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on November 30, 1986 at Erie, PA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N117EA is an Eclipse Aviation Corp EA500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Cordite INC Trustee, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2008 and expires on May 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 Cordite INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued January 25, 2008, expires May 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 000104 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N117EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 441 (serial 4410191, cancelled May 11, 1994). 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 N117EA: Accident on November 30, 1986 at Erie, PA: no 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":6,"serial_number":"000104","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1013 CENTRE RD STE 403-A","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00440399","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N117EA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"198051270"}