{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2024-12-23","airworthiness_ops":"Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew training","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2023-01-25","city":"CYPRESS","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-04-05","maker":"Yamaha Motor","maker_country":"JP","maker_raw":"YAMAHA MOTOR COMPANY LTD","maker_segment":"Agricultural drones","mfr_mdl_code":"061011B","mode_s_code":"53303240","mode_s_hex":"AD86A0","model":"YAMAHA FAZER-R","n_number":"N9704Y","name":"YAMAHA MOTOR CORP USA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"El Dorado","damage":"DEST","date":"2015-08-23","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN15FA374","probable_cause":"The loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined during postaccident examination of the accident site or based on the available information and the pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane's critical angle-of-attack after the engine power loss, which led to an aerodynamic stall and loss of control.","registration":"N9704Y","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on August 23, 2015 at El Dorado, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9704Y is a Yamaha Motor YAMAHA FAZER-R, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It is unmanned. It is registered to Yamaha Motor CORP USA, a non-citizen corporation in Cypress, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated December 23, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Yamaha Motor CORP USA, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued January 25, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated December 23, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1596F351901936429418 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9704Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 35-B33 (serial CD-597, cancelled November 9, 2015). 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":"1 NTSB record under N9704Y: Accident on August 23, 2015 at El Dorado, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":0,"serial_number":"1596F351901936429418","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6555 KATELLA AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01385403","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9704Y","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"906305101"}