{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2026-09-06","city":"SANTA CRUZ","country_code":"US","county_code":"087","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":"2026-09-28"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2033-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-09-06","maker":"Joby Aviation","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"JOBY AERO INC","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"06102DT","mode_s_code":"51575071","mode_s_hex":"A6FA39","model":"JAS4-1","n_number":"N549JX","name":"JOBY AERO INC DBA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":6,"other_names":"JOBY","plain_english":"N549JX is a Joby Aviation JAS4-1, an aircraft of a type the FAA lists as \"other\" powered by electric motors. It is registered to Joby Aero INC DBA, a corporation in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Joby Aero INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 2026, expires September 30, 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 00103 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N549JX 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 28, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N549JX. 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":"00103","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":"Other","type_aircraft_code":"O","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01547776","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N549JX","watchlist_group":"eVTOL","watchlist_note":"Piloted electric air taxi, based in Santa Cruz, California","weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"950602132"}