{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-08-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-10-18","city":"AUBURN","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41532","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-540 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-06","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640121","mode_s_code":"50237330","mode_s_hex":"A13ED8","model":"R44 ASTRO","n_number":"N18FH","name":"PARATUS AIR INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DILLINGHAM","damage":"DEST","date":"1997-08-21","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ANC97GA126","probable_cause":"The pilot's intentional VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). Factors associated with the accident are the pilot's failure to activate the cabin heating system, the lack of an operable windshield defogger, the pilot's overconfidence in his ability, pressure induced by the passengers to initiate the flight, and pressure induced by the FAA upon their employees.","registration":"N18FH","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on August 21, 1997 at Dillingham, AK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N18FH is a Robinson Helicopter R44 ASTRO, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Paratus Air INC, a corporation in Auburn, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 20, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Paratus Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 18, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated August 20, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0651 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N18FH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2599, cancelled December 15, 2003). 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 N18FH: Accident on August 21, 1997 at Dillingham, AK: fatal, destroyed (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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"0651","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2636 COUNTY ROAD 60","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00825832","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N18FH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"467066029"}