{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2012-06-01","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-02-17","city":"RESTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"VERTICAL AVIATION TECHNOLOGIES","kit_model":"HUMMINGBIRD 260L","last_action_date":"2023-04-21","maker":"Florida Helicopter Corp Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FLORIDA HELICOPTER CORP INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056305R","mode_s_code":"53325301","mode_s_hex":"ADAAC1","model":"HUMMINGBIRD 260L","n_number":"N98WB","name":"XTANGO3 LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Crescent City","damage":"DEST","date":"2004-02-14","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ANC04LA022","probable_cause":"The pilot's continued VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions, and his failure to maintain terrain clearance.  Factors associated with the accident were fog and low ceilings.","registration":"N98WB","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on February 14, 2004 at Crescent City, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N98WB is a Florida Helicopter Corp Inc HUMMINGBIRD 260L, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Xtango3 LLC, an LLC in Reston, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 1, 2012.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Xtango3 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 17, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 1, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 622 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N98WB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bertrand Wf/Warner Dc THORP T-18 (serial 524, cancelled August 12, 2004). 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":"1 NTSB record under N98WB: Accident on February 14, 2004 at Crescent City, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"622","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1503 N VILLAGE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01074011","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N98WB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2012,"zip":"201941249"}