{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2016-04-18","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-02-29","city":"SALEM","country_code":"US","county_code":"065","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03081","engine_horsepower":420,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C20B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-18","maker":"Hughes Helicopters Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES HELICOPTERS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4470706","mode_s_code":"50222135","mode_s_hex":"A1245D","model":"HUGHES 369D","n_number":"N173AL","name":"FULTON TIMOTHY E","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"West Alton","damage":"DEST","date":"2025-08-07","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN25FA307","probable_cause":"","registration":"N173AL","state":"MO","summary":"Accident on August 7, 2025 at West Alton, MO: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"FULTON SUSAN M","plain_english":"N173AL is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Salem, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 29, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 18, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Fulton Timothy E, a co-owned, certificate issued February 29, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 18, 2016, 40 years after the 1976 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 1160020D for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N173AL 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 N173AL: Accident on August 7, 2025 at West Alton, MO: fatal, destroyed (2 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":4,"serial_number":"1160020D","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1159 HWY E","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00473341","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N173AL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"65560"}