{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1987-06-15","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-08-04","city":"BEMIDJI","country_code":"US","county_code":"007","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"33996","engine_horsepower":1000,"engine_maker":"HONEYWELL","engine_model":"TPE331-11U","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-04","maker":"Fairchild","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FAIRCHILD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3377509","mode_s_code":"52212744","mode_s_hex":"A915E4","model":"SA227-AC","n_number":"N685BA","name":"RED PINE COMPANY LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N685BA is a Fairchild SA227-AC, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1987. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Red Pine Company LLC, an LLC in Bemidji, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 15, 1987.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Red Pine Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 4, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated June 15, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AC-685B for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N685BA 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N685BA. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":12,"serial_number":"AC-685B","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4125 HANGAR DR NW","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00225360","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N685BA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1987,"zip":"566016243"}