{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2020-02-20","airworthiness_ops":"Unmanned aircraft, research and development","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2020-01-16","city":"TOKYO","country_code":"JP","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-24","maker":"Tetra Aviation Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TETRA AVIATION CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"061016X","mode_s_code":"50105667","mode_s_hex":"A08BB7","model":"TETRA MK-3E","n_number":"N134TA","name":"KOYA KUWAMURA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MORGAN","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-05-05","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"SEA91LA098","probable_cause":"THE INADVERTANT STALL AND THE PILOT'S STEEP BANKED TURN.  FACTORS RELATING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE PILOT'S LACK OF QUALIFICATION TO CONDUCT THE FLIGHT AND THE STRONG TAILWIND CONDITIONS.","registration":"N134TA","state":"UT","summary":"Accident on May 5, 1991 at Morgan, UT: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":4,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N134TA is a Tetra Aviation Corp TETRA MK-3E, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings), built in 2019. It is unmanned. It is registered to an individual in Tokyo. The FAA lists the registration as \"non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports\" (certificate issued January 16, 2020). It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated February 20, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated February 20, 2020, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TETRA MK-3E 001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N134TA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cheney Richard W TERATORN TIERRA II (serial 9473, cancelled March 10, 2011). 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 N134TA: Accident on May 5, 1991 at Morgan, UT: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":0,"serial_number":"TETRA MK-3E 001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports","status_code":"N","status_short":"Reports overdue","street":"2-15-10-101  YAYOI  BUNKYO-KU","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Hybrid lift","type_aircraft_code":"H","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01309554","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N134TA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2019,"zip":"1130032"}