{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"MADERA","country_code":"US","county_code":"039","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-08","maker":"Bell Textron Canada Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL TEXTRON CANADA LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182215","mode_s_code":"51054372","mode_s_hex":"A458FA","model":"407","n_number":"N38AJ","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Lincoln","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-08-26","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR25LA260","probable_cause":"","registration":"N38AJ","state":"MT","summary":"Accident on August 26, 2025 at Lincoln, MT: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Glasgow","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-01-19","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"SEA02LA031","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain adequate flying airspeed resulting in a stall/mush condition and loss of control at low altitude.  A contributing factor was the pilot's distraction from flying the aircraft while attempting to retract the landing gear.","registration":"N38AJ","state":"MT","summary":"Accident on January 19, 2002 at Glasgow, MT: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"SALMON","damage":"DEST","date":"1988-10-10","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"SEA89LA011","probable_cause":"","registration":"N38AJ","state":"ID","summary":"Accident on October 10, 1988 at Salmon, ID: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N38AJ is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Madera, California. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported\". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported\". 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":"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 56317 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N38AJ was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mooney M20E (serial 776, cancelled September 6, 2016); Roman Edwin R LONG-EZ (serial 1538, cancelled April 10, 1991). 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":"3 NTSB records under N38AJ: Accident on August 26, 2025 at Lincoln, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 19, 2002 at Glasgow, MT: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 10, 1988 at Salmon, ID: fatal, destroyed (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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":8,"serial_number":"56317","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Sale reported","status_code":"7","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"4140 AVIATION DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01382477","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N38AJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"936379227"}