{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1978-12-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-10-26","city":"O FALLON","country_code":"US","county_code":"183","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03013","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250 SER 400HP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182107","mode_s_code":"50522050","mode_s_hex":"A2A428","model":"206L-1","n_number":"N27AE","name":"AIR EVAC EMS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"West Plains","damage":"SUBS","date":"2003-01-31","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI03LA062","probable_cause":"The excessive descent rate that required an abrupt flare, resulting in the main rotor severing the tailboom.","registration":"N27AE","state":"MO","summary":"Accident on January 31, 2003 at West Plains, MO: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"SPRINGDALE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1998-05-24","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"FTW98FA239","probable_cause":"The failure of maintenance personnel to properly assemble the engine's accessory gearbox, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to partial blockage of the main oil passage by an o-ring.  The blockage reduced oil flow to the turbine shafting, which led to the total failure of the gas producer turbine shaft and the power (free) turbine shaft.  A factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.","registration":"N27AE","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on May 24, 1998 at Springdale, AR: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N27AE is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation in O Fallon, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1978.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 26, 2005, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45192 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N27AE was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206L-3 (serial 51141, cancelled September 28, 1998); Piper PA-34-200T (serial 347970509, cancelled date not given). 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":"2 NTSB records under N27AE: Accident on January 31, 2003 at West Plains, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 24, 1998 at Springdale, AR: serious 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":7,"serial_number":"45192","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1001 BOARDWALK SPRINGS PL STE 250","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00310945","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N27AE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"633684100"}