{"airworthiness_class":"Multiple","airworthiness_date":"2008-03-12","airworthiness_ops":"Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-09-28","city":"SALTVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"173","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03080","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C20","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-09-28","maker":"Hughes Helicopters Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES HELICOPTERS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4470706","mode_s_code":"51435136","mode_s_hex":"A63A5E","model":"HUGHES 369D","n_number":"N500EK","name":"KAR AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"O'Neill","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-09-17","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CHI02LA285","probable_cause":"A loss of engine power due to turbine blade separation as a result of hot corrosion damage to the turbine blades.  Contributing to the accident was the pilot misjudging the flare at the completion of the autorotation resulting in a hard landing.  The dark night was a factor.","registration":"N500EK","state":"NE","summary":"Accident on September 17, 2002 at O'Neill, NE: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N500EK is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kar Aviation LLC, an LLC in Saltville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated March 12, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kar Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 28, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 12, 2008, 29 years after the 1979 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 1190610D for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N500EK 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 N500EK: Accident on September 17, 2002 at O'Neill, NE: minor 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"1190610D","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"221 SADDLEBACK RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00010571","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N500EK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"243703447"}