The pilot in the helicopter crash earlier this month at North Perry Airport, which sent a man and two kids to the hospital, doesn’t show up as licensed in the FAA database.
Sky Helicopter Tours’ Marcelo Andrade, 56, doesn’t show up in the FAA’s Airmen Inquiry as having a certificate to pilot an airplane or a helicopter, or work as a mechanic.
A search of the Airmen Inquiry shows no one in the United States with the last name of Andrade and Marcelo Andrade’s birthdate holding a certificate. The only Marcelo Andrade in the database is a New York City resident with a different middle name who had a student pilot certificate in 2016. Only one Floridian, a Weston resident with a different first name, has the Andrade surname and a certificate to fly a helicopter…