{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1996-06-03","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Weather control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1996-05-29","city":"MISSOULA","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41549","engine_horsepower":1150,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"T-53 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Northwest Rotorcraft Llc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NORTHWEST ROTORCRAFT LLC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9640002","mode_s_code":"50023467","mode_s_hex":"A02737","model":"UH-1H","n_number":"N109MA","name":"MINUTEMAN AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N109MA is a Northwest Rotorcraft Llc UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1968. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Minuteman Aviation INC, a corporation in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 29, 1996 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; weather control, dated June 3, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Minuteman Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 29, 1996, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 3, 1996, 28 years after the 1968 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 68-15334 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N109MA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 402C (serial 402C0012, cancelled August 25, 1989); Mitsubishi MU-2B-20 (serial 188, cancelled April 6, 1970). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N109MA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":12,"serial_number":"68-15334","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5225 HWY 10 W","street2":"AIRPORT BOX 16","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00955991","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N109MA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1968,"zip":"598080016"}