{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2011-03-04","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-07-20","city":"KIRKLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"60056","engine_horsepower":747,"engine_maker":"TURBOMECA","engine_model":"ARRIEL 2B1","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Eurocopter","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EUROCOPTER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8680989","mode_s_code":"50152755","mode_s_hex":"A0D5ED","model":"EC 130 B4","n_number":"N153GC","name":"XEBEC LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Peach Springs","damage":"SUBS","date":"2017-05-25","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"GAA17CA344","probable_cause":"The ground crewman\u2019s failure to hold onto the passenger door while the main rotor was still rotating, which resulted in the door separating from the helicopter and damaging the main rotor.","registration":"N153GC","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on May 25, 2017 at Peach Springs, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"WINSTON SALEM","damage":"MINR","date":"1983-07-22","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ATL83IA295","probable_cause":"","registration":"N153GC","state":"NC","summary":"Incident on July 22, 1983 at Winston Salem, NC: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N153GC is an Eurocopter EC 130 B4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Xebec LLC, an LLC in Kirkland, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 4, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Xebec LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 20, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated March 4, 2011, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7074 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N153GC according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"2 NTSB records under N153GC: Accident on May 25, 2017 at Peach Springs, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Incident on July 22, 1983 at Winston Salem, NC: no injuries, minor damage. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"7074","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"12515 WILLOWS RD NE STE 200","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01065528","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N153GC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2010,"zip":"980348795"}