{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-08-15","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2000-09-22","city":"KETCHIKAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"130","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"60030","engine_horsepower":681,"engine_maker":"TURBOMECA","engine_model":"ARRIEL 1SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Eurocopter","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EUROCOPTER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8680954","mode_s_code":"51137471","mode_s_hex":"A4BF39","model":"AS 350 B3","n_number":"N405AE","name":"TEMSCO HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"KETCHIKAN","damage":"SUBS","date":"2000-09-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC00LA132","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadvertent activation of the collective flight stop/emergency fuel augmentation switch, which resulted in engine and main rotor overspeeds, thereby precipitating failures of the tail rotor drive shaft coupling and power turbine blades.  A factor associated with the accident was the manufacturer's inadequate design of the flight stop switch, which has insufficient safeguards to preclude inadvertent activation.","registration":"N405AE","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on September 23, 2000 at Ketchikan, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"DFW AIRPORT","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-07-27","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW91LA137","probable_cause":"THE CAPTAIN OF THE OTHER AIRCRAFT MISJUDGED CLEARANCE BETWEEN HIS AIRCRAFT AND THE STANDING COMMUTER AIRPLANE. A FACTOR WAS THE FAILURE BY THE SECOND PILOT OF THE OTHER AIRPLANE TO IDENTIFY A HAZARDOUS CONDITION.","registration":"N405AE","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on July 27, 1991 at Dfw Airport, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N405AE is an Eurocopter AS 350 B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Temsco Helicopters INC, a corporation in Ketchikan, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2000 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 15, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Temsco Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 22, 2000, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated August 15, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3286 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N405AE 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":"2 NTSB records under N405AE: Accident on September 23, 2000 at Ketchikan, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 27, 1991 at Dfw Airport, TX: 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":6,"serial_number":"3286","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 5057","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00745710","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N405AE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"999010057"}