{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1965-02-15","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-03-08","city":"GETTYSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":65,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41515","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"I0360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-27","maker":"Hughes","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4470404","mode_s_code":"53053432","mode_s_hex":"AC571A","model":"269A-1","n_number":"N8944F","name":"FITZGERALD BRIAN B","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CANBY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-06-13","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"SEA91LA130","probable_cause":"A HARD LANDING AFTER AN UNDETERMINED LOSS OF POWER.  FACTORS INCLUDE AN EXCESSIVE EMERGENCY DESCENT RATE.","registration":"N8944F","state":"OR","summary":"Accident on June 13, 1991 at Canby, OR: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8944F is a Hughes 269A-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 15, 1965.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Fitzgerald Brian B, an individual, certificate issued March 8, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15-0021 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8944F 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 N8944F: Accident on June 13, 1991 at Canby, OR: minor 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"15-0021","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"914 BARLOW GREENMOUNT RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00722411","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8944F","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"173258711"}