{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-01-24","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"MCCLELLAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-02"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30155","engine_horsepower":1994,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"T700-GE-701D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-10-07","maker":"Sikorsky Aircraft Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8140305","mode_s_code":"51274733","mode_s_hex":"A579DB","model":"S-70I","n_number":"N452DF","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N452DF is a Sikorsky Aircraft Corp S-70I, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It has 15 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mcclellan, California. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated January 24, 2025. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". 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 research and development, dated January 24, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 705354 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N452DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman S2F-1 (serial 204, cancelled date not given). 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":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 2, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N452DF. 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":15,"serial_number":"705354","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"5500 PRICE AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01451586","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N452DF","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2024,"zip":"956522438"}