{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2020-03-10","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-02-20","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03092","engine_horsepower":450,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C20R/2","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-07","maker":"Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MCDONNELL DOUGLAS HELICOPTER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3027369","mode_s_code":"50646165","mode_s_hex":"A34C75","model":"369E","n_number":"N311VT","name":"GECO INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Waimea","damage":"SUBS","date":"2016-10-04","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR17LA005","probable_cause":"Impact of the lift cable after it exited the helicopter during liftoff with the main rotor (MR) blades, which resulted in the separation of an MR blade tip and the vertical vibration of the helicopter.","registration":"N311VT","state":"HI","summary":"Accident on October 4, 2016 at Waimea, HI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N311VT is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1987. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Geco INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 10, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Geco INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 20, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 10, 2020, 33 years after the 1987 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 0229E for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N311VT 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 N311VT: Accident on October 4, 2016 at Waimea, HI: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"0229E","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3511 SILVERSIDE RD STE 105","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00543831","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N311VT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1987,"zip":"198104902"}