{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2016-05-07","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"BOULDER","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55553","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"914UL","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":"2025-08-26","maker":"Richard G Sugden","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RICHARD G SUGDEN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05634WM","mode_s_code":"51447055","mode_s_hex":"A64E2D","model":"CALIDUS","n_number":"N505TA","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N505TA is a Richard G Sugden CALIDUS, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Boulder, Colorado. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending, pending cancellation\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 7, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending, 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, dated May 7, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C00427 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N505TA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Airbus Industrie A300 B4-203 (serial 271, cancelled May 13, 2010). 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 N505TA. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"C00427","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Registration pending, pending cancellation","status_code":"19","status_short":"Pending cancellation","street":"1166 CHERRYVALE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01211281","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N505TA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"803031302"}