{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2025-02-10","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-05-02","city":"TERRETON","country_code":"US","county_code":"051","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30155","engine_horsepower":1994,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"T700-GE-701D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-05-02","maker":"Sikorsky","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8141835","mode_s_code":"52746561","mode_s_hex":"ABCD71","model":"UH-60L","n_number":"N86KT","name":"KIT HELICOPTER OPERATIONS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N86KT is a Sikorsky UH-60L, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1986. It has 18 seats. It is registered to Kit Helicopter Operations LLC, an LLC in Terreton, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated February 10, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kit Helicopter Operations LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 2, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 10, 2025, 39 years after the 1986 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 86-24511 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N86KT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Thompson Kinnith W SONERAI I (serial 00217, cancelled December 13, 2012). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N86KT. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":18,"serial_number":"86-24511","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ID","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1280 E 1500 N","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01439997","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N86KT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1986,"zip":"834505136"}