{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2017-07-26","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-08-14","city":"LAKE HAVASU CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"015","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":"2026-09-30"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55553","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"914UL","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"AUTOGYRO USA LLC","kit_model":"CALIDUS","last_action_date":"2025-08-14","maker":"Jim Faist","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JIM FAIST","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05631TK","mode_s_code":"51270001","mode_s_hex":"A57001","model":"CALIDUS","n_number":"N45CM","name":"WEST SPORT AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N45CM is a Jim Faist CALIDUS, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to West Sport Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 26, 2017. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to West Sport Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 14, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 26, 2017, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C00425 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N45CM was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: S N I A S AS350D ASTAR (serial 1463, cancelled August 1, 2006); Aero Commander 680FL P (serial 150117, cancelled August 12, 1993). 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 30, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N45CM. 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"C00425","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1934 E SAVANNAH DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01201685","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N45CM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"864048400"}