{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2021-06-14","airworthiness_ops":"Commuter","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-05-21","city":"WHITEFISH","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"66011","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"WILLIAMS","engine_model":"FJ44-4A","engine_thrust_lb":3443,"expiration_date":"2033-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-21","maker":"Textron Aviation Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TEXTRON AVIATION INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2076628","mode_s_code":"50777474","mode_s_hex":"A3FF3C","model":"525C","n_number":"N357EK","name":"PAYNE COLE AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N357EK is a Textron Aviation Inc 525C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2021. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Payne Cole Aviation LLC, an LLC in Whitefish, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated June 14, 2021.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Payne Cole Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 21, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for commuter, dated June 14, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 525C0357 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N357EK 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 N357EK. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":11,"serial_number":"525C0357","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"100 CENTRAL AVE STE 204","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"01342310","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N357EK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2021,"zip":"599372577"}