{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2011-09-21","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-04-28","city":"BEAR CREEK","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03035","engine_horsepower":317,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C10D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Hughes/Helicopter Assocs Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES/HELICOPTER ASSOCS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4470703","mode_s_code":"51567065","mode_s_hex":"A6EE35","model":"369A","n_number":"N546","name":"MOORE LEWIS D JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"West Chester","damage":"SUBS","date":"2012-10-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA13LA022","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to see and avoid the preceding helicopter while maneuvering for landing. Contributing to the accident were the flight lead pilot\u2019s inadequate preflight briefing and in-flight instruction to the formation pilots, which resulted in the loss of the formation flight's integrity and the pilots\u2019 situational awareness within the flight.","registration":"N546","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on October 13, 2012 at West Chester, PA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N546 is a Hughes/Helicopter Assocs Inc 369A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bear Creek, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Moore Lewis D JR, an individual, certificate issued April 28, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 21, 2011, 14 years after the 1997 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 HA001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N546 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Morgan PIONEER 15 (serial 1, cancelled January 28, 1991); Sud Aviation SE3130 ALOUETTE II (serial 1329, cancelled July 8, 1965). 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 N546: Accident on October 13, 2012 at West Chester, PA: no 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"HA001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"21 ELMER MOORE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00316311","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N546","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"272079340"}