{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2012-05-30","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-04-25","city":"DORR","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55572","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912ULS SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"AUTOGYRO USA LLC","kit_model":"CALIDUS","last_action_date":"2023-04-25","maker":"Jim Faist","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JIM FAIST","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05631TK","mode_s_code":"51335216","mode_s_hex":"A5BA8E","model":"CALIDUS","n_number":"N4686S","name":"TJEPKEMA CHARLES S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4686S is a Jim Faist CALIDUS, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dorr, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 30, 2012.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Tjepkema Charles S, an individual, certificate issued April 25, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 30, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11023 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4686S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna TR182 (serial R18201379, cancelled July 27, 1995); Bensen B-8M (serial 409, cancelled December 7, 1967). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N4686S. 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"11023","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4537 16TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01093424","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4686S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2012,"zip":"493239743"}