{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1976-04-14","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-10-21","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03013","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250 SER 400HP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-10-21","maker":"Hughes","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4470728","mode_s_code":"51432676","mode_s_hex":"A635BE","model":"369HS","n_number":"N5FC","name":"SARA HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"COLUMBIA","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-03-27","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"BFO91LA036","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT, WHICH RESULTED IN HIS FAILURE TO SEE-AND-AVOID THE OBSTRUCTION (FENCE POST).","registration":"N5FC","state":"MD","summary":"Accident on March 27, 1991 at Columbia, MD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5FC is a Hughes 369HS, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sara Helicopters INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1976.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sara Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 21, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0787S for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N5FC 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 N5FC: Accident on March 27, 1991 at Columbia, MD: 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"0787S","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1521 CONCORD PIKE STE 201","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00340845","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5FC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"198033645"}