{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2005-09-19","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-09-19","city":"RED OAK","country_code":"US","county_code":"139","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41530","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540 SER","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":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640122","mode_s_code":"51420214","mode_s_hex":"A6208C","model":"R44 II","n_number":"N494SH","name":"IHDE INVESTMENTS LP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Port O'Connor","damage":"DEST","date":"2023-03-07","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN23FA125","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s initiation of the visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in spatial disorientation and a subsequent loss of helicopter control. Contributing to the accident was the pilot\u2019s flicker vertigo during the flight.","registration":"N494SH","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on March 7, 2023 at Port O'Connor, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Bonham","damage":"SUBS","date":"2014-02-14","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN14CA142","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadequate recovery from a loss of tail rotor effectiveness during a low altitude downwind hover in a gusty wind condition resulting in the helicopter contacting the ground and rolling over.","registration":"N494SH","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on February 14, 2014 at Bonham, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N494SH is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ihde Investments LP, a partnership in Red Oak, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ihde Investments LP, a partnership, certificate issued September 19, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10878 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N494SH 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 N494SH: Accident on March 7, 2023 at Port O'Connor, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on February 14, 2014 at Bonham, 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Partnership","registrant_type_code":"2","seats":4,"serial_number":"10878","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1745 STAINBACK RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00189679","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N494SH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2005,"zip":"751543207"}