{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2026-07-17","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-06-24","city":"SHREVEPORT","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59999","engine_horsepower":708,"engine_maker":"SAFRAN","engine_model":"ARRIEL 1E2","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-24","maker":"Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5626002","mode_s_code":"51264217","mode_s_hex":"A5688F","model":"MBB-BK 117 C-2","n_number":"N448CH","name":"METRO AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Swainsboro","damage":"DEST","date":"2001-05-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA01LA147","probable_cause":"the failure of the pilot to properly compensate for a crosswind and for gusty conditions during takeoff/initial climb, which resulted in an inflight loss of control and collision with the ground.","registration":"N448CH","state":"GA","summary":"Accident on May 30, 2001 at Swainsboro, GA: no injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N448CH is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2011. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Metro Aviation INC, a corporation in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 17, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Metro Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 24, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 17, 2026, 15 years after the 2011 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 9448 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N448CH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Heyn Russell RANS S-6 (serial 03991308, cancelled November 27, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N448CH: Accident on May 30, 2001 at Swainsboro, GA: no injuries, destroyed. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":8,"serial_number":"9448","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"LA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1214 HAWN AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01510849","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N448CH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"711076612"}