{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2024-12-23","airworthiness_ops":"Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew training","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2020-07-01","city":"CYPRESS","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-04-06","maker":"Yamaha Motor","maker_country":"JP","maker_raw":"YAMAHA MOTOR CO LTD","maker_segment":"Agricultural drones","mfr_mdl_code":"061015W","mode_s_code":"51527272","mode_s_hex":"A6AEBA","model":"FAZER SAR","n_number":"N53GR","name":"YAMAHA MOTOR CORP USA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Reno","damage":"SUBS","date":"2023-08-29","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR23LA330","probable_cause":"The operator\u2019s incorrect input into the ground station controller, resulting in a loss of control during flight and subsequent impact with terrain.","registration":"N53GR","state":"NV","summary":"Accident on August 29, 2023 at Reno, NV: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N53GR is a Yamaha Motor FAZER SAR, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It is unmanned. It is registered to Yamaha Motor CORP USA, a non-citizen corporation in Cypress, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated December 23, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Yamaha Motor CORP USA, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued July 1, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 23, 2024, 3 years after the 2021 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1596F351901936428923 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N53GR according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"1 NTSB record under N53GR: Accident on August 29, 2023 at Reno, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":0,"serial_number":"1596F351901936428923","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6555 KATELLA AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01301470","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N53GR","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2021,"zip":"906305101"}