{"airworthiness_class":"Multiple","airworthiness_date":"2014-10-17","airworthiness_ops":"Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-13","city":"PHILPOT","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42353","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-540-F1B5","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-13","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640120","mode_s_code":"51434210","mode_s_hex":"A63888","model":"R44","n_number":"N50KR","name":"VORTEX AIR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N50KR is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2014. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Vortex Air LLC, an LLC in Philpot, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated October 17, 2014.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Vortex Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 13, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated October 17, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2379 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N50KR 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N50KR. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"2379","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8905 SHORT STATION RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01159035","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N50KR","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2014,"zip":"423668911"}