{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2023-03-08","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-05-31","city":"SALT LAKE CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"035","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":"2030-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-03-15","maker":"Airbus Helicopters Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIRBUS HELICOPTERS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1145009","mode_s_code":"51412201","mode_s_hex":"A61481","model":"MBB-BK 117 C-2","n_number":"N491HC","name":"BANK OF UTAH TRUSTEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PALO ALTO","damage":"DEST","date":"1984-04-29","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX84LA274","probable_cause":"","registration":"N491HC","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on April 29, 1984 at Palo Alto, CA: no injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N491HC is an Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK 117 C-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Bank Of Utah Trustee, a corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 31, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 8, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bank Of Utah Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued May 31, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated March 8, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9878 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N491HC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Meiste Cordell CHALLENGER II (serial SA10256850, cancelled date not given). 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 N491HC: Accident on April 29, 1984 at Palo Alto, CA: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":10,"serial_number":"9878","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"UT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"50 S 200 E STE 110","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01380057","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N491HC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"841111617"}