{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-01-24","airworthiness_ops":"Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew training; Unmanned aircraft, compliance with regulations","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2025-05-23","city":"BIRMINGHAM","country_code":"US","county_code":"073","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-05-23","maker":"Swissdrones Operating Ag","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SWISSDRONES OPERATING AG","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"06102BI","mode_s_code":"52510714","mode_s_hex":"AA91CC","model":"SDO 50 V2","n_number":"N780PA","name":"SOUTHERN COMPANY SERVICES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Antioch","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-01-18","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA24LA099","probable_cause":"A partial loss of engine power due to a reduction of fuel flow for undetermined reasons. Contributing to the accident was the UAS manufacturer\u2019s lack of instructions for a partial loss of engine power landing.","registration":"N780PA","state":"GA","summary":"Accident on January 18, 2024 at Antioch, GA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N780PA is a Swissdrones Operating Ag SDO 50 V2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It is unmanned. It is registered to Southern Company Services INC, a corporation in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training; unmanned aircraft, compliance with regulations, dated January 24, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Southern Company Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 23, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 24, 2025, 7 years after the 2018 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 45200417 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N780PA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Altus Intelligence Inc ORC2 (serial ORC2HL0006, cancelled December 11, 2020); Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0480, cancelled March 10, 2008). 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 N780PA: Accident on January 18, 2024 at Antioch, GA: 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":0,"serial_number":"45200417","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3535 COLONNADE PKWY BIN S 280 EC","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01352122","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N780PA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2018,"zip":"35243"}