Db Aerocopter Ltd AK1-3
N163AK is a Db Aerocopter Ltd AK1-3, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Powell Butte, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 7, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Db Aerocopter Ltd
- Model
- AK1-3
- Serial number
- 0097
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Subaru EJ257 · 300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A0FCDD (octal 50176335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 14, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · December 7, 2022
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01362290
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scheller James I
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6123 SW Mount Baker Dr
Powell Butte, OR 97753-1682
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N163AK, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Scheller James I, an individual, certificate issued October 14, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated December 7, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0097 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N163AK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eurocopter EC 130 T2 (serial 7613, cancelled January 17, 2014). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N163AK: Accident on May 17, 2025 at Prineville, OR: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Db Aerocopter LTD AK1-3 · operated under 091
On May 17, 2025, about 1134 pacific daylight time, a DB Aerocopter Ltd., AK1-3, N163AK, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Prineville, Oregon. The private pilot undergoing instruction was fatally injured, and the flight instructor sustained serious injuries. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations part 91 instructional flight. The helicopter was not equipped with an ADS-B transponder, and radar coverage was not available in the area, however the initial departure along with segments of the accident sequence were captured by mult…
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data