{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-05-14","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-11-07","city":"GUNTERSVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"095","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan release","doc_type_code":"REL","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-03"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30155","engine_horsepower":1994,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"T700-GE-701D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-11-07","maker":"Sikorsky","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8141835","mode_s_code":"50371004","mode_s_hex":"A1F204","model":"UH-60L","n_number":"N224YA","name":"ACE AERONAUTICS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N224YA is a Sikorsky UH-60L, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1985. It has 18 seats. It is registered to Ace Aeronautics LLC, an LLC in Guntersville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 14, 2026. 1 document is on file: loan release.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ace Aeronautics LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 7, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 14, 2026, 41 years after the 1985 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 85-24387 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N224YA according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Loan release (September 3, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N224YA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":18,"serial_number":"85-24387","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"105 BUCK ISLAND DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01427011","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N224YA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1985,"zip":"35976"}