{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2016-09-30","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-08-08","city":"FORT DODGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"187","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55572","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912ULS SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"AUTOGYRO GMBH","kit_model":"CALIDUS","last_action_date":"2023-08-25","maker":"Don W Sandell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DON W SANDELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05635I5","mode_s_code":"52513020","mode_s_hex":"AA9610","model":"AUTOGYRO GMBH CALIDU","n_number":"N781US","name":"SANDELL DON W","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N781US is a Don W Sandell AUTOGYRO GMBH CALIDU, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 30, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sandell Don W, an individual, certificate issued August 8, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 30, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C00436 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N781US 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 N781US. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"C00436","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2222 310TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01225777","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N781US","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"505018698"}