{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1998-12-19","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-02-21","city":"FILLMORE","country_code":"US","county_code":"111","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41564","engine_horsepower":461,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"LTS-750-B-1","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-02-21","maker":"Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MESSERSCHMITT-BOLKOW-BLOHM","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5626013","mode_s_code":"50044453","mode_s_hex":"A0492B","model":"BK 117 B-2","n_number":"N1174U","name":"GUARDIAN HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Sheboygan","damage":"SUBS","date":"2018-03-05","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN18LA115","probable_cause":"The restricted cyclic control movement for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination and testing of the cyclic control system did not reveal any evidence of mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.","registration":"N1174U","state":"WI","summary":"Accident on March 5, 2018 at Sheboygan, WI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1174U is a Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Guardian Helicopters INC, a corporation in Fillmore, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 19, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Guardian Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 21, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 19, 1998, 10 years after the 1988 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 7146 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1174U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17266875, cancelled October 11, 1990). 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 N1174U: Accident on March 5, 2018 at Sheboygan, WI: no 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":7,"serial_number":"7146","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"67 D ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00375001","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1174U","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1988,"zip":"930151668"}