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N311VT

Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E

Valid Delaware

N311VT is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1987. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Geco INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 10, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
Model
369E · all 369Es and related versions
Serial number
0229E
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20R/2 · 450 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1987
Transponder code
A34C75 (octal 50646165)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 20, 2020
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 10, 2020
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00543831

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Geco INC
Type
Corporation
Address
3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N311VT, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Geco INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 20, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 10, 2020, 33 years after the 1987 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. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0229E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N311VT according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N311VT: Accident on October 4, 2016 at Waimea, HI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

WPR17LA005Accident on October 4, 2016 at Waimea, HI: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E · operated under 135

Impact of the lift cable after it exited the helicopter during liftoff with the main rotor (MR) blades, which resulted in the separation of an MR blade tip and the vertical vibration of the helicopter.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR17LA005 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data