{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-11-26","city":"CHICO","country_code":"US","county_code":"007","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":"2031-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gyroplanes","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-11-26","maker":"Rotorsport Uk Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ROTORSPORT UK LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7980111","mode_s_code":"52335011","mode_s_hex":"A9BA09","model":"CAVALON","n_number":"N726CA","name":"KUPERMAN DAVID B","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Chico","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-10-07","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"WPR25LA005","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed resulting in an inadvertent descent and subsequent collision with trees.","registration":"N726CA","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on October 7, 2024 at Chico, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"MARETTI JOHN","plain_english":"N726CA is a Rotorsport Uk Ltd CAVALON, a gyroplane with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Chico, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 26, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. 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 Kuperman David B, a co-owned, certificate issued November 26, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. 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 RSUK-V00426 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N726CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 402A (serial 402A0034, cancelled November 29, 2012). 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 N726CA: Accident on October 7, 2024 at Chico, CA: serious 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":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"RSUK-V00426","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 6132","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Gyroplane","type_aircraft_code":"9","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01307481","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N726CA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"959276132"}