{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1997-02-25","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-12-11","city":"JEFFERSON","country_code":"US","county_code":"157","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-10-01"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"01520","engine_horsepower":800,"engine_maker":"AIRESEARCH","engine_model":"TSE331 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-01","maker":"Sikorsky/Vertical","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY/VERTICAL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8141824","mode_s_code":"51440550","mode_s_hex":"A64168","model":"S-55","n_number":"N502AK","name":"PROVOST MICHAEL A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N502AK is a Sikorsky/Vertical S-55, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jefferson, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 25, 1997. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Provost Michael A, an individual, certificate issued December 11, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate, dated February 25, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial V55-896T for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N502AK according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 1, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N502AK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"V55-896T","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"500 AIRPORT WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00576321","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N502AK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"30549"}