{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2008-09-08","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-08-12","city":"LAKEWOOD","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54585","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C47B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-19","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron Canada","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182154","mode_s_code":"52004417","mode_s_hex":"A8090F","model":"407","n_number":"N617DE","name":"US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"RIFLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1999-11-24","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DEN00GA022","probable_cause":"a forced landing on rough, unsuitable terrain.  A contributing factor was the partial loss of engine power, which resulted from improper maintenance by repair station personnel.","registration":"N617DE","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on November 24, 1999 at Rifle, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION","plain_english":"N617DE is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 8 seats. It is registered to US Department Of Energy, a government body in Lakewood, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2009 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 8, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to US Department Of Energy, a government body, certificate issued August 12, 2009, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated September 8, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53867 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N617DE 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 N617DE: Accident on November 24, 1999 at Rifle, CO: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":8,"serial_number":"53867","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"12155 W ALAMEDA PKWY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01009554","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N617DE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2008,"zip":"802282802"}