{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2013-11-15","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-05-18","city":"SAN JOSE","country_code":"US","county_code":"085","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41871","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-360-M1B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-7","last_action_date":"2026-05-18","maker":"David R Edtl","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DAVID R EDTL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056323F","mode_s_code":"51622341","mode_s_hex":"A724E1","model":"RV 7","n_number":"N56DE","name":"WAYPOINT AVIATION CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N56DE is a David R Edtl RV 7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Waypoint Aviation CORP, a non-citizen corporation in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 15, 2013.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Waypoint Aviation CORP, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued May 18, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 15, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70883 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N56DE was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ward Joe SUPER II S GLASAIR (serial 2247, cancelled September 23, 2010); Bell 206L (serial 45061, cancelled date not given). 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 N56DE. 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":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":2,"serial_number":"70883","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"448 BUCKINGHAM PARK CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01133620","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N56DE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2013,"zip":"951362011"}