{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2013-02-18","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","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":"2026-09-14"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55572","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912ULS SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"AUTOGYRO GMBH","kit_model":"CALIDUS","last_action_date":"2026-01-13","maker":"Norm Kolb","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NORM KOLB","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05632GC","mode_s_code":"51376142","mode_s_hex":"A5FC62","model":"AUTOGYRO CALIDUS","n_number":"N485NK","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N485NK is a Norm Kolb AUTOGYRO CALIDUS, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wilmington, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported, pending cancellation\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 18, 2013. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported, pending cancellation\". 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 amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C00246 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N485NK according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 14, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N485NK. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"C00246","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Sale reported, pending cancellation","status_code":"17","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"108 W 13TH ST STE 105","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01114979","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N485NK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"198011145"}