{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-01-27","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-12-14","city":"WEST TRENTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"021","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59989","engine_horsepower":1100,"engine_maker":"SAFRAN","engine_model":"ARRANO 1A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-12-14","maker":"Airbus Helicopters","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIRBUS HELICOPTERS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8681992","mode_s_code":"52662234","mode_s_hex":"AB649C","model":"H160-B","n_number":"N833MK","name":"MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N833MK is an Airbus Helicopters H160-B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It has 14 seats. It is registered to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, an LLC in West Trenton, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 14, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated January 27, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 14, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 27, 2026, 3 years after the 2023 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 1005 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N833MK 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N833MK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":14,"serial_number":"1005","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NJ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"C/O AVIATION SERVICES","street2":"100 SAM WEINROTH RD","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01431303","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N833MK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"08628"}