{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2025-06-23","city":"EPPING","country_code":"GB","county_code":"","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":"2032-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-09-25","maker":"Freefly Systems","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"FREEFLY SYSTEMS","maker_segment":"Inspection and mapping drones","mfr_mdl_code":"061017A","mode_s_code":"51311025","mode_s_hex":"A59215","model":"ALTA X","n_number":"N458ZB","name":"BATCAM INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":4,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N458ZB is a Freefly Systems ALTA X, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Batcam INC, a non-citizen corporation in Epping. The FAA lists the registration as \"non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports\" (certificate issued June 23, 2025). 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 \"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":"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 AX635819 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N458ZB 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 N458ZB. 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":"European","region_code":"8","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":0,"serial_number":"AX635819","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports","status_code":"N","status_short":"Reports overdue","street":"UNIT 44 WOODSIDE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01495690","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N458ZB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"CM166LJ"}