{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1967-03-08","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Aerial surveying; Patrolling","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-03-29","city":"RAMONA","country_code":"US","county_code":"073","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52016","engine_horsepower":600,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R1340 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-20","maker":"Kaman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"KAMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4800702","mode_s_code":"50561701","mode_s_hex":"A2E3C1","model":"H-43A","n_number":"N2856J","name":"CLASSIC ROTORS MUSEUM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2856J is a Kaman H-43A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Classic Rotors Museum, a corporation in Ramona, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; aerial surveying; patrolling, dated March 8, 1967.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Classic Rotors Museum, a corporation, certificate issued March 29, 2007, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 8, 1967, 8 years after the 1959 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 58-1840 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N2856J 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N2856J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"58-1840","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2690 MONTECITO RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00440463","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2856J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1959,"zip":"920651611"}