{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2007-06-26","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"LUCAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"085","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54023","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C30","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-04","maker":"Aerospatiale","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSPATIALE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8680817","mode_s_code":"50566670","mode_s_hex":"A2EDB8","model":"AS350BA","n_number":"N288WS","name":"WORLD TRADE ENTERPRISES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N288WS is an Aerospatiale AS350BA, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. It has 6 seats. It is registered to World Trade Enterprises LLC, an LLC in Lucas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on  and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 26, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to World Trade Enterprises LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 26, 2007, 19 years after the 1988 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 2087 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N288WS 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N288WS. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"2087","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1800 NORTHFORK LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00135081","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N288WS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1988,"zip":"750028496"}