{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1990-02-08","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":"03015","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C30 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-10","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182108","mode_s_code":"50565670","mode_s_hex":"A2EBB8","model":"206L-3","n_number":"N288AE","name":"AIR EVAC EMS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Carthage","damage":"SUBS","date":"2023-08-06","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN23LA350","probable_cause":"A collision with a fence during landing due to the crew\u2019s reduced distance estimation and depth perception while using night vision goggles. Contributing to the accident was the low moon angle, which made viewing the fence more challenging.","registration":"N288AE","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on August 6, 2023 at Carthage, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N288AE is a Bell 206L-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1989. 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 September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 8, 1990.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 26, 2005, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated February 8, 1990, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51327 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N288AE 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 N288AE: Accident on August 6, 2023 at Carthage, IL: 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":7,"serial_number":"51327","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":"00125001","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N288AE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1989,"zip":"633684100"}