{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-12-21","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-06-05","city":"O FALLON","country_code":"US","county_code":"183","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03013","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250 SER 400HP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182206","mode_s_code":"51417371","mode_s_hex":"A61EF9","model":"407","n_number":"N494AE","name":"AIR EVAC EMS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Dallas","damage":"MINR","date":"2009-12-26","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN10IA084","probable_cause":"A fatigue failure of an elevator stop bracket, which resulted in a partial jam of the elevator control. Contributing to the failure was the improper installation of shim stacks, poor alignment of the brackets, and cyclic stresses acting on the lower stop, generated by the repeated improper use of the gust lock system.","registration":"N494AE","state":"TX","summary":"Incident on December 26, 2009 at Dallas, TX: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N494AE is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation in O Fallon, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 5, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 21, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 5, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 21, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53512 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N494AE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale ATR 72-212A (serial 494, cancelled December 17, 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 N494AE: Incident on December 26, 2009 at Dallas, TX: no injuries, minor 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":7,"serial_number":"53512","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1001 BOARDWALK SPRINGS PL STE 250","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00653997","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N494AE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"633684100"}