{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-09-27","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-02","city":"AURORA","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55552","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"914ULS","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"TAG AVIATION PTY LTD","kit_model":"TITANIUM EXPLORER","last_action_date":"2025-08-12","maker":"James P Schmidt","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JAMES P SCHMIDT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0564259","mode_s_code":"52144172","mode_s_hex":"A8C87A","model":"SCHMIDT TITANIUM EXP","n_number":"N665TE","name":"SCHMIDT JAMES P","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Larkspur","damage":"SUBS","date":"2026-07-13","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN26LA254","probable_cause":"","registration":"N665TE","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on July 13, 2026 at Larkspur, CO: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N665TE is a James P Schmidt SCHMIDT TITANIUM EXP, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Aurora, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Schmidt James P, an individual, certificate issued July 2, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0066-0125 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N665TE 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 N665TE: Accident on July 13, 2026 at Larkspur, CO: fatal, substantial damage (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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"0066-0125","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1480 S LAREDO ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01498693","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N665TE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"800174003"}