{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-04-28","city":"HOUSTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"201","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":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-28","maker":"Aea Research Pty Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEA RESEARCH PTY LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056346D","mode_s_code":"52315021","mode_s_hex":"A99A11","model":"EXPLORER 350R","n_number":"N718DA","name":"EXPLORER AIRCRAFT INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ATLANTA","damage":"","date":"1992-06-02","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ATL92IA113","probable_cause":"THE OVERHEATING OF THE NUMBER 2 AIR CYCLE MACHINE WHICH RESULTED IN AN EMERGENCY EVACUATION VIA SLIDES; THE FAILURE OF THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS TO SECURE THE SLIDE GIRT BARS.","registration":"N718DA","state":"GA","summary":"Incident on June 2, 1992 at Atlanta, GA: minor injuries.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N718DA is an Aea Research Pty Ltd EXPLORER 350R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Explorer Aircraft INC, a corporation in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. 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 Explorer Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 28, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. 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 350-001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N718DA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed L-1011-385-1 (serial 193C-1097, cancelled June 13, 2005). 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 N718DA: Incident on June 2, 1992 at Atlanta, GA: minor injuries. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":10,"serial_number":"350-001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7670 WOODWAY DR STE 200","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01195820","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N718DA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"770631531"}