{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2025-07-15","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-08-11","city":"GRAND FORKS","country_code":"US","county_code":"035","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42353","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-540-F1B5","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-08-11","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640120","mode_s_code":"52741324","mode_s_hex":"ABC2D4","model":"R44","n_number":"N857RD","name":"UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N857RD is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to University Of North Dakota, a government body in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 15, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to University Of North Dakota, a government body, certificate issued August 11, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated July 15, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30109 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N857RD 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 N857RD. 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":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":4,"serial_number":"30109","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ND","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3980 CAMPUS RD STOP 9007","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01501859","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N857RD","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"582029007"}