{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2000-06-26","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-10-24","city":"VINCENNES","country_code":"US","county_code":"083","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59050","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"SUBARU","engine_model":"ALL MDLS A/B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"ROTARY AIR FORCE MARKETING","kit_model":"RAF 2000 GTX SE","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Van Kalker John E","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"VAN KALKER JOHN E","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05607PQ","mode_s_code":"50453412","mode_s_hex":"A2570A","model":"RAF 2000 GTX SE","n_number":"N25VK","name":"ILLIANA AERO LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Decker","damage":"SUBS","date":"2011-07-06","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN11CA454","probable_cause":"The improper landing flare, which resulted in the gyroplane's main rotor contacting the runway surface.","registration":"N25VK","state":"IN","summary":"Accident on July 6, 2011 at Decker, IN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N25VK is a Van Kalker John E RAF 2000 GTX SE, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Illiana Aero LLC, an LLC in Vincennes, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 26, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Illiana Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 24, 2007, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 26, 2000, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 251 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N25VK 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 N25VK: Accident on July 6, 2011 at Decker, IN: no 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"251","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"10000 S HORRALL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00005792","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N25VK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"47591"}