{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-02-23","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2025-09-26","city":"SAN JOSE","country_code":"US","county_code":"085","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":"2032-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-26","maker":"Archer Aviation","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ARCHER AVIATION INC","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"056421M","mode_s_code":"52261600","mode_s_hex":"A96380","model":"M001","n_number":"N704AX","name":"ARCHER AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"GLENNS FERRY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1999-07-17","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA99LA122","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the attempted takeoff.  A related factor was the pilot's lack of recent experience.","registration":"N704AX","state":"ID","summary":"Accident on July 17, 1999 at Glenns Ferry, ID: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":12,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N704AX is an Archer Aviation M001, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings), built in 2025. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Archer Aviation INC, a corporation in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated February 23, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Archer Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 26, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for research and development, dated February 23, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N704AX was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15078469, cancelled April 13, 2017). 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 N704AX: Accident on July 17, 1999 at Glenns Ferry, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":5,"serial_number":"2","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"190 W TASMAN DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Hybrid lift","type_aircraft_code":"H","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01504397","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N704AX","watchlist_group":"eVTOL","watchlist_note":"Midnight air taxi, San Jose, California","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"951341700"}