{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-06-06","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-12-28","city":"FAIRBANKS","country_code":"US","county_code":"122","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42314","engine_horsepower":145,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-360-J2A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-01","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640115","mode_s_code":"53060660","mode_s_hex":"AC61B0","model":"R22 MARINER","n_number":"N8970C","name":"MCDONALD TODD P","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8970C is a Robinson Helicopter R22 MARINER, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 6, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mcdonald Todd P, an individual, certificate issued December 28, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated June 6, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3225M for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8970C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-135 (serial 221548, cancelled April 1, 1991). 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 N8970C. 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"3225M","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3891 BONITA ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00993774","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8970C","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"997017352"}