{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2015-05-12","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-03-10","city":"GREENWOOD VILLAGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52204","engine_horsepower":431,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PW206B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-12-16","maker":"Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5620030","mode_s_code":"51532453","mode_s_hex":"A6B52B","model":"EC 135 P2+","n_number":"N531LN","name":"AIR METHODS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Drexel Hill","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-01-11","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ERA22FA105","probable_cause":"An inflight attitude upset for undetermined reasons that resulted in a rotor system overspeed, a reduction of power from both engines, and a subsequent hard landing.","registration":"N531LN","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on January 11, 2022 at Drexel Hill, PA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N531LN is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 P2+, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2006. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 12, 2015.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 10, 2014, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 12, 2015, 9 years after the 2006 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 0474 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N531LN 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 N531LN: Accident on January 11, 2022 at Drexel Hill, PA: serious 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":7,"serial_number":"0474","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5500 S QUEBEC ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00257959","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N531LN","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2006,"zip":"801111914"}