{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2011-07-14","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-06-09","city":"WASHINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"60037","engine_horsepower":747,"engine_maker":"TURBOMECA","engine_model":"ARRIEL 2B","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":"8680954","mode_s_code":"50253373","mode_s_hex":"A156FB","model":"AS 350 B3","n_number":"N186AE","name":"US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Jacksonville","damage":"SUBS","date":"2009-08-04","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ERA09TA440","probable_cause":"The flight instructor's improper decision to attempt hover flight without hydraulic power and his subsequent loss of control.","registration":"N186AE","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on August 4, 2009 at Jacksonville, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"US CUSTOMS & BORDER PROTECTION / OFFICE OF AIR & MARINE","plain_english":"N186AE is an Eurocopter AS 350 B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 6 seats. It is registered to US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated July 14, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body, certificate issued June 9, 2005, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 14, 2011, 7 years after the 2004 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 3872 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N186AE 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 N186AE: Accident on August 4, 2009 at Jacksonville, FL: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":6,"serial_number":"3872","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1300 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW RM 6.4A","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00155349","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N186AE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2004,"zip":"202290002"}