Epic Aircraft Llc E1000
N44BN is an Epic Aircraft Llc E1000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2024. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Hes Leasing Company LLC, an LLC in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 27, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Epic Aircraft Llc
- Model
- E1000 · all E1000s and related versions
- Serial number
- K077
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-67A · 1200 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A5486A (octal 51244152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · November 27, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01469466
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hes Leasing Company LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 13840 Rancho Capistrano Bend
San Diego, CA 92130
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N44BN, 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 Hes Leasing Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 28, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated November 27, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial K077 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N44BN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Naylor Boyd D PL-4A (serial 476, cancelled September 8, 2017). 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 N44BN: Accident on January 23, 2025 at Arcola, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Epic Aircraft LLC E1000 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to extend the airplane’s landing gear before landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA087 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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