{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2026-04-11","city":"SEATTLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2033-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-04-11","maker":"Radical Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RADICAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"06102K9","mode_s_code":"51623011","mode_s_hex":"A72609","model":"S-1 EVENSTAR","n_number":"N56RA","name":"RADICAL INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"EASTFORD","damage":"DEST","date":"1999-04-25","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"NYC99FA097","probable_cause":"Inadequate welding of the airplane's spar-box by the owner/builder, which resulted in a total spar-box failure in-flight.  A factor in the accident was the pilot's decision to perform aerobatics.","registration":"N56RA","state":"CT","summary":"Accident on April 25, 1999 at Eastford, CT: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N56RA is a Radical Inc S-1 EVENSTAR, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor powered by electric motors. It is unmanned. It is registered to Radical INC, a non-citizen corporation in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Radical INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued April 11, 2026, expires April 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 002 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N56RA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ives Raymond T SONERAI II-L (serial 1108, cancelled May 20, 2015). 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":"1 NTSB record under N56RA: Accident on April 25, 1999 at Eastford, CT: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":0,"serial_number":"002","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"950 NW LEARY WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01525015","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N56RA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"981074646"}