{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1978-03-30","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-11-29","city":"HINCKLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"115","cruise_speed_mph":45,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"63501","engine_horsepower":36,"engine_maker":"VOLKSWAGEN","engine_model":"CONVERSION","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Novotny","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NOVOTNY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1302149","mode_s_code":"52464306","mode_s_hex":"AA68C6","model":"BENSEN B-8M","n_number":"N77XL","name":"MCGUINN JAMES J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N77XL is a Novotny BENSEN B-8M, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hinckley, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 29, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 30, 1978.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mcguinn James J, an individual, certificate issued November 29, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 30, 1978, 4 years after the 1974 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1212 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N77XL 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N77XL. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"1212","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"OLD GOVERNMENT ROAD","street2":"32902 COUNTY ROAD #15","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00573457","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N77XL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1974,"zip":"55037"}