{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2026-03-11","city":"PALO ALTO","country_code":"US","county_code":"085","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":"2033-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-11","maker":"Pivotal (BlackFly / Helix)","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"PIVOTAL AERO LLC","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"05643H7","mode_s_code":"51424742","mode_s_hex":"A629E2","model":"HELIX","n_number":"N4968R","name":"PIVOTAL AERO LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":8,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4968R is a Pivotal (BlackFly / Helix) HELIX, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor powered by electric motors. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Pivotal Aero LLC, an LLC in Palo Alto, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Pivotal Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 11, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 SN105-5169 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4968R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna A188B (serial 18802478T, cancelled November 1, 2016); Cessna 172H (serial 17256322, cancelled July 6, 1970). 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 N4968R. 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":1,"serial_number":"SN105-5169","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1029 CORPORATION WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01522656","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4968R","watchlist_group":"eVTOL","watchlist_note":"Single-seat personal eVTOL, Palo Alto, California","weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"943034305"}