{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-05-09","city":"CHESAPEAKE","country_code":"US","county_code":"550","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"06404","engine_horsepower":171,"engine_maker":"AUSTRO","engine_model":"AE330","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-05-09","maker":"Alexander Schleicher","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3801553","mode_s_code":"50354264","mode_s_hex":"A1D8B4","model":"ASK 21 MI","n_number":"N218RC","name":"OVERWATCH TOOLS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MONTGOMERY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1983-10-05","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ATL84LA011","probable_cause":"","registration":"N218RC","state":"AL","summary":"Accident on October 5, 1983 at Montgomery, AL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N218RC is an Alexander Schleicher ASK 21 MI, a glider with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Overwatch Tools INC, a corporation in Chesapeake, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. 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 Overwatch Tools INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 9, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. 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 211002 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N218RC according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N218RC: Accident on October 5, 1983 at Montgomery, AL: 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":2,"serial_number":"211002","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"300 WOODARDS FORD RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01504477","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N218RC","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"AS 33 ME","weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"233224349"}