{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-05-16","city":"PENSACOLA","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2030-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-16","maker":"Sikorsky","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8146004","mode_s_code":"50021117","mode_s_hex":"A0224F","model":"UH-60A","n_number":"N1079G","name":"BROWN HELICOPTER INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DELANO","damage":"SUBS","date":"1999-01-03","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"LAX99LA065","probable_cause":"The fatigue failure and separation of the oil pump drive from the accessory gear section, which induced an oil starvation failure of the engine.  The fatigue failure of the oil pump drive gear was caused by improper machining of the gear's fillet radius during original manufacture.","registration":"N1079G","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on January 3, 1999 at Delano, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1079G is a Sikorsky UH-60A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to Brown Helicopter INC, a corporation in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Brown Helicopter INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 79-23295 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1079G was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lokken Marvin O KIT FOX 2 HOME BUILT (serial 001, cancelled February 27, 2018); Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K (serial 25-0578, cancelled March 29, 1999). 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 N1079G: Accident on January 3, 1999 at Delano, CA: 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":15,"serial_number":"79-23295","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"10100 AILERON AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01405418","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1079G","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"325068223"}