{"airworthiness_class":"Multiple","airworthiness_date":"2014-12-16","airworthiness_ops":"Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-01-08","city":"DARLINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"107","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-03"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54385","engine_horsepower":420,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C20B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-01-08","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181518","mode_s_code":"53134035","mode_s_hex":"ACB81D","model":"206B","n_number":"N919AC","name":"KW AIR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Sandersville","damage":"SUBS","date":"2023-06-25","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA23LA295","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain clearance of trees during landing, which resulted in a tail rotor contact with tree limbs and a subsequent loss of control.","registration":"N919AC","state":"GA","summary":"Accident on June 25, 2023 at Sandersville, GA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Cedar Key","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-04-18","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA22LA192","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s improper fuel planning during agricultural spraying operations, which resulted in fuel starvation, a loss of engine power, and a hard landing following an autorotation.","registration":"N919AC","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on April 18, 2022 at Cedar Key, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N919AC is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Kw Air LLC, an LLC in Darlington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest, dated December 16, 2014. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kw Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 8, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 16, 2014, 26 years after the 1988 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 4020 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N919AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Extra Flugzeugbau Gmbh EA 300/L (serial 043, cancelled July 14, 1997). 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":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N919AC: Accident on June 25, 2023 at Sandersville, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 18, 2022 at Cedar Key, FL: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":5,"serial_number":"4020","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6655 N 700 E","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01011812","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N919AC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1988,"zip":"479407005"}