{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2020-03-16","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-07-31","city":"MIAMI","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"60090","engine_horsepower":1746,"engine_maker":"TURBOMECA","engine_model":"MAKILA 2A1","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Airbus Helicopters","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIRBUS HELICOPTERS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8682992","mode_s_code":"51607112","mode_s_hex":"A70E4A","model":"EC225 LP","n_number":"N554AC","name":"VERTICAL AVIATION NO 1 LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"OSHTEMO TOWNSHP","damage":"DEST","date":"1987-10-23","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI88FA010","probable_cause":"","registration":"N554AC","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on October 23, 1987 at Oshtemo Townshp, MI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N554AC is an Airbus Helicopters EC225 LP, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2011. It has 26 seats. It is registered to Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC, an LLC in Miami, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 16, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 31, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 16, 2020, 9 years after the 2011 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 2818 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N554AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Smith AEROSTAR 600 (serial 60-0029, cancelled September 12, 2013). 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 N554AC: Accident on October 23, 1987 at Oshtemo Townshp, MI: 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":26,"serial_number":"2818","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"830 BRICKELL PLZ STE 5000","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01313946","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N554AC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"331312904"}