{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2012-01-26","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-12-17","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"EAGLE R & D CO LLC","kit_model":"HELICYCLE","last_action_date":"2025-12-17","maker":"James S Kent","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JAMES S KENT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05631JR","mode_s_code":"50210400","mode_s_hex":"A11100","model":"HELICYCLE","n_number":"N168SK","name":"VINTAGE AERO COLLECTION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N168SK is a James S Kent HELICYCLE, a rotorcraft with turboprop engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2011. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Vintage Aero Collection INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 26, 2012.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Vintage Aero Collection INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 17, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 26, 2012, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 527-E-527 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N168SK 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N168SK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"527-E-527","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"108 13TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01087149","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N168SK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"19801"}