{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1975-10-17","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-02-14","city":"ELM GROVE","country_code":"US","county_code":"015","cruise_speed_mph":64,"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":"2029-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-18","maker":"Hughes","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4470504","mode_s_code":"53061034","mode_s_hex":"AC621C","model":"269C","n_number":"N8973F","name":"AVELAN ENTERPRISES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"KNOWLES","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-02-18","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW91LA041","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN A PROPER DESCENT RATE DURING THE MANEUVER AND HIS DELAY IN INITIATING THE GO-AROUND.","registration":"N8973F","state":"OK","summary":"Accident on February 18, 1991 at Knowles, OK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8973F is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1973. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Avelan Enterprises INC, a corporation in Elm Grove, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2013 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated October 17, 1975.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Avelan Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 14, 2013, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated October 17, 1975, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 430195 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8973F 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 N8973F: Accident on February 18, 1991 at Knowles, OK: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"430195","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"LA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"C/O CHARLES GLASSCOCK","street2":"PO BOX 16","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00001551","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8973F","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1973,"zip":"710510016"}