{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2007-03-30","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-11-30","city":"HELENA","country_code":"US","county_code":"049","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41899","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540-AE1A5","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-11-30","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640122","mode_s_code":"50310245","mode_s_hex":"A190A5","model":"R44 II","n_number":"N20LA","name":"PET CARE CENTERS OF AMERICA LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"LOUISA","damage":"DEST","date":"1995-04-30","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"BFO95FA048","probable_cause":"the non-instrument rated private pilot's continued VFR flight into IMC and failure to maintain adequate altitude/clearance from terrain/obstacles.  Related factors were the pilot's lack of total experience in IMC operations, his failure to obtain a preflight weather briefing, and the fog and low ceiling.","registration":"N20LA","state":"VA","summary":"Accident on April 30, 1995 at Louisa, VA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N20LA is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft (a helicopter or multicopter). The FAA's model table marks this aircraft as electric, but its engine record is a Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5, a conventional engine, so this site does not count it as electric. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Pet Care Centers Of America LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 30, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Pet Care Centers Of America LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 30, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11699 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N20LA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 287205057, cancelled October 5, 1995). 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 N20LA: Accident on April 30, 1995 at Louisa, VA: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"11699","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"55 W 14TH ST STE 101","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"00328809","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N20LA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"596013387"}