{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2019-02-09","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-09-19","city":"LEAVENWORTH","country_code":"US","county_code":"007","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55553","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"914UL","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"TAG AVIATION PTY LTD","kit_model":"TITANIUM EXPLORER","last_action_date":"2023-09-19","maker":"Toevs Christine F G","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TOEVS CHRISTINE F G","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05637U2","mode_s_code":"51427576","mode_s_hex":"A62F7E","model":"TOEVS TITANIUM EXPLR","n_number":"N498TE","name":"SCHMIDT KEVIN G","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Cashmere","damage":"SUBS","date":"2026-07-16","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"WPR26LA264","probable_cause":null,"registration":"N498TE","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on July 16, 2026 at Cashmere, WA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"SCHMIDT KIMBERLY A","plain_english":"N498TE is a Toevs Christine F G TOEVS TITANIUM EXPLR, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Leavenworth, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 9, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Schmidt Kevin G, a co-owned, certificate issued September 19, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 9, 2019, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0049-0718 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N498TE 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":"1 NTSB record under N498TE: Accident on July 16, 2026 at Cashmere, WA: serious 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"0049-0718","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8075 ICICLE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01279774","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N498TE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2018,"zip":"988269321"}