{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-11-05","airworthiness_ops":"Unmanned aircraft, research and development","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2022-12-12","city":"SANTA CRUZ","country_code":"US","county_code":"087","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":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-11-06","maker":"Joby Aviation","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"JOBY AERO INC","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"061011H","mode_s_code":"51560726","mode_s_hex":"A6E1D6","model":"JAS4-1","n_number":"N5421A","name":"JOBY AERO INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":6,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5421A is a Joby Aviation JAS4-1, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings), built in 2022. It is registered to Joby Aero INC, a corporation in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated November 5, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Joby Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 12, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 5, 2025, 3 years after the 2022 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 00005 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5421A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310B (serial 35621, cancelled November 30, 1995). 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 N5421A. 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":0,"serial_number":"00005","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"333 ENCINAL ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Hybrid lift","type_aircraft_code":"H","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01373210","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5421A","watchlist_group":"eVTOL","watchlist_note":"Piloted electric air taxi, based in Santa Cruz, California","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"950602132"}