{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-09-09","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-04-10","city":"BEDFORD","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54004","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"ROLLS DEUT","engine_model":"BR700-710A220","engine_thrust_lb":14750,"expiration_date":"2033-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-04-10","maker":"Bombardier Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOMBARDIER INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1390006","mode_s_code":"53062037","mode_s_hex":"AC641F","model":"BD-700-1A10","n_number":"N898M","name":"DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N898M is a Bombardier Inc BD-700-1A10, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2024. It has 23 seats. It is registered to Department Of The Air Force, a government body in Bedford, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 10, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated September 9, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Department Of The Air Force, a government body, certificate issued April 10, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for research and development, dated September 9, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60156 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N898M was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company G36 (serial E-3764, cancelled October 6, 2009); Miller James HELISPORT CH7 (serial 60, cancelled June 22, 2006); Henriques Ricardo A HELISPORT CH 7 (serial 60, cancelled December 20, 2005). 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 N898M. 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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":23,"serial_number":"60156","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5 EGLIN ST BLDG 1624","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"01475154","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N898M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2024,"zip":"017312100"}