{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1988-04-26","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1988-02-11","city":"ANDALE","country_code":"US","county_code":"173","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55006","engine_horsepower":150,"engine_maker":"ROTORWAY","engine_model":"RW152","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Faber Vincent L","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FABER VINCENT L","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"13025GD","mode_s_code":"51462012","mode_s_hex":"A6640A","model":"SCORPION 133","n_number":"N51017","name":"FABER VINCENT L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Andale","damage":"DEST","date":"2024-07-05","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN24FA248","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s abrupt control inputs, which resulted in a low-G condition, main rotor mast bumping, and subsequent severing of the tailboom by the main rotor blades.","registration":"N51017","state":"KS","summary":"Accident on July 5, 2024 at Andale, KS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N51017 is a Faber Vincent L SCORPION 133, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Andale, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 1988 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 26, 1988.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Faber Vincent L, an individual, certificate issued February 11, 1988, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F883417 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N51017 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Piper PA-28RT-201 (serial 28R8031110, cancelled August 7, 1984); Hughes 269C (serial 711069, cancelled September 22, 1981); Cessna 172 (serial 17274250, cancelled February 19, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N51017: Accident on July 5, 2024 at Andale, KS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"F883417","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"26801 W 45TH ST N","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00544061","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N51017","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"670019613"}