{"airworthiness_class":"Multiple","airworthiness_date":"1978-05-09","airworthiness_ops":"Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-11-07","city":"DRAKESVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"051","cruise_speed_mph":65,"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":"2027-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-01","maker":"Hughes","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4470402","mode_s_code":"53027676","mode_s_hex":"AC2FBE","model":"269A","n_number":"N8845F","name":"DOWNING DARRELL W","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8845F is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1963. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Drakesville, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 9, 1978.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Downing Darrell W, an individual, certificate issued November 7, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 9, 1978, 15 years after the 1963 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53-0208 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8845F 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 N8845F. 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":"53-0208","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"15751 ICE AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00422641","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8845F","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1963,"zip":"525528655"}