{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2022-12-07","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-10-14","city":"POWELL BUTTE","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59049","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"SUBARU","engine_model":"EJ257","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Db Aerocopter Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DB AEROCOPTER LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05634Q2","mode_s_code":"50176335","mode_s_hex":"A0FCDD","model":"AK1-3","n_number":"N163AK","name":"SCHELLER JAMES I","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Prineville","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-05-17","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR25FA156","probable_cause":"","registration":"N163AK","state":"OR","summary":"Accident on May 17, 2025 at Prineville, OR: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Scheller James I, an individual, certificate issued October 14, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated December 7, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0097 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","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 N163AK: Accident on May 17, 2025 at Prineville, OR: fatal, substantial damage (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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"0097","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6123 SW MOUNT BAKER DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01362290","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N163AK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"977531682"}