{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-09-05","airworthiness_ops":"Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew training","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2023-06-16","city":"SEATTLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","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":"2030-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Amazon Prime Air","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC","maker_segment":"Delivery and cargo drones","mfr_mdl_code":"06102FK","mode_s_code":"50377777","mode_s_hex":"A1FFFF","model":"MK30","n_number":"N228PA","name":"AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Alma","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-03-15","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI02FA093","probable_cause":"The pilot not removing the ice contamination from the airplane prior to departure and the pilot intentionally flying into known severe icing conditions, resulting in the aircraft not being able to maintain altitude/clearance from the terrain.  Factors to the accident included the icing conditions and the trees encountered during the forced landing.","registration":"N228PA","state":"WI","summary":"Accident on March 15, 2002 at Alma, WI: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":6,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N228PA is an Amazon Prime Air MK30, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It is unmanned. It is registered to Amazon.Com Services LLC, an LLC in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated September 5, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Amazon.Com Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 16, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated September 5, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 178650100N for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N228PA was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Amazon Logistics Inc MK27 (serial 027B-000618, cancelled October 20, 2021); Cessna 208B (serial 208B0049, cancelled October 27, 2004); Cessna 208 (serial 20800246, cancelled August 2, 2000). 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 N228PA: Accident on March 15, 2002 at Alma, WI: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":0,"serial_number":"178650100N","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"ATTN: LEGAL DEPARTMENT","street2":"410 TERRY AVE N","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01409697","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N228PA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2024,"zip":"98109"}