{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1986-02-10","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2003-02-24","city":"URBANA","country_code":"US","county_code":"021","cruise_speed_mph":165,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52008","engine_horsepower":450,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R-985 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Beech","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BEECH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1151018","mode_s_code":"52760020","mode_s_hex":"ABE010","model":"C-45H","n_number":"N8640E","name":"GRIMES FLYING LAB FOUNDATION","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"TREMONT CITY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1986-07-06","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ATL86FEG01","probable_cause":"","registration":"N8640E","state":"OH","summary":"Accident on July 6, 1986 at Tremont City, OH: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8640E is a Beech C-45H, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Grimes Flying Lab Foundation, a corporation in Urbana, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2003 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated February 10, 1986.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Grimes Flying Lab Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued February 24, 2003, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for research and development; 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 AF-510 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8640E 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":"1 NTSB record under N8640E: Accident on July 6, 1986 at Tremont City, OH: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":10,"serial_number":"AF-510","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1636 N MAIN ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00782441","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8640E","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"430785001"}