{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2005-06-09","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-03-17","city":"KETCHIKAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"130","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03031","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"T63 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-17","maker":"Spears Wayne","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SPEARS WAYNE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05619Q3","mode_s_code":"52553702","mode_s_hex":"AAD7C2","model":"SPEARS 58","n_number":"N798WS","name":"SELEY CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N798WS is a Spears Wayne SPEARS 58, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Seley CORP, a corporation in Ketchikan, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 9, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Seley CORP, a corporation, certificate issued March 17, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated June 9, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CS001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N798WS 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 N798WS. 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":5,"serial_number":"CS001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"9755 N TONGASS HWY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00175219","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N798WS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2005,"zip":"999019246"}