{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2003-05-29","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-05-20","city":"CORONA","country_code":"US","county_code":"065","cruise_speed_mph":81,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52106","engine_horsepower":925,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6T-6","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-12","maker":"Sikorsky","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8141803","mode_s_code":"50043000","mode_s_hex":"A04600","model":"S-58ET","n_number":"N1168U","name":"HELI-FLITE INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Azusa","damage":"SUBS","date":"2019-09-11","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR19LA255","probable_cause":"The in-flight separation of a section of the tail rotor blade due to a fatigue crack, which resulted in the pilot\u2019s forced autorotation into a field.","registration":"N1168U","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on September 11, 2019 at Azusa, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"SANTA ANA","damage":"SUBS","date":"1989-04-15","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"LAX89FA160","probable_cause":"FAILURE OF THE LANDING GEAR RESULTING FROM EXCESSIVE LOADING DURING GROUND OPERATIONS, AND FATIGUE CRACKING.","registration":"N1168U","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on April 15, 1989 at Santa Ana, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1168U is a Sikorsky S-58ET, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1958. It has 14 seats. It is registered to Heli-Flite INC, a corporation in Corona, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 29, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Heli-Flite INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 20, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 29, 2003, 45 years after the 1958 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 58-1070 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N1168U according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"2 NTSB records under N1168U: Accident on September 11, 2019 at Azusa, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 15, 1989 at Santa Ana, 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":14,"serial_number":"58-1070","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1965 AVIATION DR # F","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00951220","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1168U","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1958,"zip":"928788709"}