{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2023-06-14","city":"S SAN FRAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"081","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":"2030-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-14","maker":"Elroy Air","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ELROY AIR INC","maker_segment":"Delivery and cargo drones","mfr_mdl_code":"06102CS","mode_s_code":"52271253","mode_s_hex":"A972AB","model":"CHAPARRAL C1","n_number":"N708EA","name":"ELROY AIR INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N708EA is an Elroy Air CHAPARRAL C1, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings). It is registered to Elroy Air INC, a corporation in S San Fran, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. 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 Elroy Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 14, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. 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 C1-002 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N708EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: DJI PHANTOM 2 VISION + (serial PH645199878, cancelled September 22, 2016). 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 N708EA. 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":"C1-002","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"415 E GRAND AVE STE 201","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Hybrid lift","type_aircraft_code":"H","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01401548","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N708EA","watchlist_group":"Hybrid-electric","watchlist_note":"Chaparral hybrid-electric cargo drone","weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"940806208"}