{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2013-06-26","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-05-02","city":"CHAMBLEE","country_code":"US","county_code":"089","cruise_speed_mph":81,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51502","engine_horsepower":4500,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"JFTD12A-4A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-05-02","maker":"Sikorsky","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8142604","mode_s_code":"50222125","mode_s_hex":"A12455","model":"S-64E","n_number":"N173AC","name":"HELICOPTER EXPRESS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Mount Eliza","damage":"SUBS","date":"2019-01-28","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR19WA147","probable_cause":"","registration":"N173AC","state":"","summary":"Accident on January 28, 2019 at Mount Eliza: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N173AC is a Sikorsky S-64E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Helicopter Express LLC, an LLC in Chamblee, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 26, 2013.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Helicopter Express LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 2, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 26, 2013, 46 years after the 1967 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 64015 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N173AC 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":"1 NTSB record under N173AC: Accident on January 28, 2019 at Mount Eliza: minor injuries, substantial 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":3,"serial_number":"64015","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2025 FLIGHTWAY DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00084772","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N173AC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1967,"zip":"303413349"}