{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2013-05-28","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-03-19","city":"GREENVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54023","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C30","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-21","maker":"Hughes Helicopters Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES HELICOPTERS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4470709","mode_s_code":"51506753","mode_s_hex":"A68DEB","model":"369FF","n_number":"N521PA","name":"PATRIOT AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FRESNO","damage":"DEST","date":"1994-12-14","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DCA95MA007","probable_cause":"1) IMPROPERLY INSTALLED ELECTRICAL WIRING FOR SPECIAL MISSION OPERATIONS THAT LED TO AN IN-FLIGHT FIRE THAT CAUSED AIRPLANE SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AND SUBSEQUENT AIRPLANE CONTROL DIFFICULTIES; 2) IMPROPER MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION PROCEDURES FOLLOWED BY THE OPERATOR; AND 3) INADEQUATE OVERSIGHT AND APPROVAL OF THE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION PRACTICE BY THE OPERATOR IN THE INSTALLATION OF THE SPECIAL MISSION SYSTEMS.","registration":"N521PA","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on December 14, 1994 at Fresno, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N521PA is a Hughes Helicopters Inc 369FF, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1985. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Patriot Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation in Greenville, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 28, 2013.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Patriot Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued March 19, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 28, 2013, 28 years after the 1985 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 0015F for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N521PA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: British Aerospace BAE JETSTREAM 3101 (serial 702, cancelled September 15, 2009); Gates Learjet Corp. 35A (serial 239, cancelled June 1, 1995). 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 N521PA: Accident on December 14, 1994 at Fresno, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":4,"serial_number":"0015F","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"ATTN: TERRY DOUGHERTY","street2":"3801 KENNETT PIKE BLDG C STE 100","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00672625","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N521PA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1985,"zip":"19807"}