{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2023-05-13","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-04-27","city":"NOVI","country_code":"US","county_code":"125","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55620","engine_horsepower":135,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"915 IS","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":"ELA AVIACION S L","kit_model":"ECLIPSE 10 EVO","last_action_date":"2025-09-11","maker":"Lord Charles Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LORD CHARLES INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05641RK","mode_s_code":"50627453","mode_s_hex":"A32F2B","model":"ECLIPSE 10 EVO","n_number":"N304LC","name":"LORD CHARLES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N304LC is a Lord Charles Inc ECLIPSE 10 EVO, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Lord Charles INC, a non-citizen corporation in Novi, Michigan. The FAA lists the registration as \"non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports\" (certificate issued April 27, 2023). It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 13, 2023.","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 amateur built, dated May 13, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 01236881025 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N304LC 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 N304LC. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":2,"serial_number":"01236881025","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports","status_code":"N","status_short":"Reports overdue","street":"42776 CARDINAL WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01402530","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N304LC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"483753651"}