{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2003-08-02","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-02-14","city":"WASILLA","country_code":"US","county_code":"170","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41530","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640122","mode_s_code":"52505331","mode_s_hex":"AA8AD9","model":"R44 II","n_number":"N779DZ","name":"POLLUX AVIATION LTD","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Pelican","damage":"SUBS","date":"2021-08-31","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC21LA080","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s loss of control while landing on a remote helipad.","registration":"N779DZ","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on August 31, 2021 at Pelican, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Ketchikan","damage":"SUBS","date":"2015-10-06","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"GAA16CA009","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the engine start sequence, which resulted in the helicopter sliding on a steel deck and impacting a crane. Contributing to the accident was the absence of traction material on the helicopter operations portion of the steel deck.","registration":"N779DZ","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on October 6, 2015 at Ketchikan, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N779DZ is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Pollux Aviation LTD, a corporation in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 2, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Pollux Aviation LTD, a corporation, certificate issued February 14, 2020, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated August 2, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10149 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N779DZ 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":"2 NTSB records under N779DZ: Accident on August 31, 2021 at Pelican, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 6, 2015 at Ketchikan, AK: 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"10149","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6540 E BEECHCRAFT RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00053229","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N779DZ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"996549330"}