{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1987-04-27","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-09-06","city":"WHITTEMORE","country_code":"US","county_code":"069","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41524","engine_horsepower":205,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"HIO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-17","maker":"Enstrom","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ENSTROM","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3300412","mode_s_code":"52754470","mode_s_hex":"ABD938","model":"F-28F","n_number":"N8624Q","name":"RUCKLE KELBY J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8624Q is an Enstrom F-28F, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Whittemore, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 27, 1987.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ruckle Kelby J, an individual, certificate issued September 6, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 750 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8624Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A185F (serial 18503751, cancelled February 28, 1980). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N8624Q. 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":3,"serial_number":"750","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2070 NILE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00695540","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8624Q","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"487709789"}